The largest economy in the world, in terms of Nominal GDP as of December 2025, is the United States, with a GDP of $ 30.615 ...

UNTIL 1700 the world economy did not really grow—it just stagnated. Over the previous 17 centuries global output had expanded by 0.1% a year on average, a rate at which it takes nearly a millennium ...

After Adolf Hitler’s troops rolled into France in 1940, many feared the imminent destruction of Europe and its economy. British investors did not. In the year following the invasion, London’s ...

California remained the world’s fourth-largest economy by a narrow margin as 2025 started. This bragging-rights scorecard – a talking point among the state’s cheerleaders – has been filled with ...