Visit KC’s 2025 tourism outlook showed marketing efforts yielded smaller returns. Source: axios.com

Donald Broughton, Managing Partner at Broughton Capital, says freight flows point to a strengthening economy, resilient consumer spending and improving housing demand despite higher fuel prices. Source: cnbc.com

At Asia’s biggest metal industry gathering last week, a single word dominated almost every conversation — fapiao, China’s humble tax receipt. Source: bloomberg.com

Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Germany must buckle down to ensure economic renewal, amid geopolitical turmoil. Meanwhile, inflation is up again with energy prices a key driver pushing up costs. DW has the latest. Source: dw.com

The latest budget contains tentative steps toward long-awaited economic reform, while providing cost-of-living relief and boosting fuel security as the Iran war threatens international supply. Source: wsj.com

New research finds that ICE raids and deportation fears disrupted local economies, reduced work among undocumented immigrants, and may have hurt some U.S.-born workers too. Source: npr.org