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In 2022, Kelle Sparta and her husband, Jeff Brandon, left the US for Boquete, Panama. They were attracted to the town's affordable living, mild weather, and expat community. Since moving, [...]

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We forecast that real GDP growth will rebound to 3.2% in 2024, from 0.4% in 2023, before slowing to 2.5% in 2025. The slowdown in 2025 partly reflects the impact [...]

We forecast that GDP will rebound strongly in 2024, expanding by 2.8%, after political turmoil and extreme weather led to a contraction of 0.6% in 2023. Growth this year will [...]

Violent weather events are driving down real estate values in Texas, Florida, and Louisiana, according to Capital Economics. Property-insurance costs have grown at the fastest rate in 20-years due to [...]

Kate M. moved from San Diego to Salt Lake City due to high living and childcare costs. Despite overall lower costs in Utah, she misses San Diego's weather, food, and [...]

We forecast that Sri Lanka's economy will grow by 5.6% in 2024 after two consecutive years of contraction. Low inflation and growing real incomes will provide some lift to consumption. [...]

We forecast that inflation will moderate to 3.4% in 2024, within the BSP's target range of 2-4%. However, there are upside risks to this forecast, notably further currency depreciation, higher [...]

The Moroccan economy will remain vulnerable to weather-related fluctuations in agricultural output-which accounts for about 10% of gross value added-over the forecast period. In May the Ministry of Agriculture estimated [...]

For the past 18 months, Americans have been living with anxiety over the possibility that we will enter a recession. Apprehension is only heightened by predictions that seesaw between 'certain' [...]

LIHEAP is receiving less funding even as the country faces another record-breaking summer. Funding for a program that helps low-income Americans pay for heating and cooling is shrinking this year [...]

Consumer prices will remain elevated in 2024-25, as inflation surged in the last quarter of 2023 owing to a rise in VAT and excise duty affecting the final prices of [...]

Tornadoes, hailstorms and pipe-bursting flash freezes hurtled Arkansas' school property insurance programs into a crisis last fiscal year. Underwriters recoiling from huge claims for extreme weather--including a record estimated $122 [...]

Last year, the U.S. experienced 28 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. This surpasses 2020--which had 22 events--for the highest number of billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. on record. The [...]

What's happened? Australia's south-east has been hit by major flooding following a series of heavy storms. Weather warnings are in place in the states of Victoria and New South Wales [...]

We forecast that real GDP growth will slow again in 2024, to 0.8%, from an estimated 3.2% in 2023. This largely reflects the planned shutdown of the ITT oilfield (we [...]

We expect that the economic impact of the earthquake in September will be relatively modest and short-lived (especially as regards the important tourism sector). No major industrial or mining activities [...]

We forecast that real GDP growth will slow again in 2024, to 0.7%, from an estimated 1.1% in 2023. This largely reflects the planned shutdown of the ITT oilfield (we [...]

Sandra, a Gen Xer, recently moved from the Los Angeles area to the beaches of North Carolina. She said California's rising cost of living pushed her toward the East Coast [...]

The US economy is in good shape but there are 'storm clouds' on the horizon, Jamie Dimon says. The JPMorgan chief worries about the fallout from pandemic stimulus as well [...]

Inflation will moderate to 3.3% in 2024, well within the BSP's target range of 2-4%. However, some price pressures from food security and elevated global oil prices will continue to [...]

Guatemala's GDP growth will continue to decelerate, from 4.1% in 2022 to 2.9% in 2023, in line with an impending economic slowdown in the US, which is the country's biggest [...]