Worldwide: Economic Analysis

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Procurement leaders face mounting pressure to deliver 2-5% annual cost reductions while navigating tariffs, geopolitical shifts, and talent shortages. Agentic AI is emerging as a structural solution to these constraints, with early adopters already seeing EBITDA impacts of 4.7 percentage points compared to 3.6 for less mature peers. The critical question is whether organizations will successfully pair AI agents with human judgment to capture value, or fall behind competitors who are already compounding gain

U.S. consumers continue to spend, but resilience is increasingly strained. Real wage gains and essential-driven demand are sustaining near-term activity, even as sentiment weakens and household balance sheets...

Texas is home to 31.3 million people, and with two of the country's leading metropolitan areas by economic output, Texas is the world's eighth largest economy at US$2.7 trillion.

Corporate Partner Eric Perlmutter-Gumbiner and client Lauren Riihimaki (“LaurDIY”) shared their insights on trends shaping the evolving creator economy for LA Times Studios’ Creator Economy Trends Roundtable.

On March 11, 2026, conservative politician José Antonio Kast assumed office as Chile's newly elected president after a victory in December 2025, obtaining 58.16% of the vote (with over seven million ballots)...

Since 2005, when Foley Hoag started its Energy & Climate Group, we have been blessed to attract and serve many of the nation's most innovative and dynamic developers, technology companies, and investors.

Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration plans to stop assigning dollar values to the human health benefits resulting from the imposition of national ambient air quality standards.

The decision by the U.S. Mint to cease production of the one-cent coin — driven by the unsustainable reality that each penny costs 3.69 cents, nearly four times its face value...