Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

The 17-country eurozone risks falling into a "severe recession," the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned on Tuesday, as it called on governments and Europe's central bank to act quickly to keep the slowdown from spreading.

Pundits constantly lament the state of the U.S. economy, but it's our human capital that we should be worried about. Our young people are being ill-prepared for the workplace, and getting some very strange signals from both schools and parents about what it means to be "the best."

One of the world's leading economic advisory organizations is urging governments to avoid protectionism as they grapple with the global recession. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), advisor to 27 high-income countries, announced Tuesday it now expects global trade to...

The hope that unemployment in the largest nations will peak at 8 percent or even 9 percent appears to be going away. That means that even the currently planned stimulus packages in places like the U.S., E.U., and U.K. may not be enough to keep the economy out of a recession that could go into 2010...