All is far from well in the Italian economy. Despite the fact that the Italian government can presently borrow at rates very similar to that of the US government, the country’s public debt situation ...

Expectations of a surge in non-performing loans in Italy have failed to materialize, with the country’s banking system and economy holding firm in the face of macroeconomic volatility Despite annual ...

Giancarlo Giorgetti, the Minister of Economy and Finance of Italy, acknowledged that in the past five years, the country’s banking industry has gained massive profits; therefore, urging that it was ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Italian economy is one of the most at risk in the European Union because of its large debt and weak banking sector, the European Commission said on Wednesday in a recurrent ...

As usual, the second GDP estimate includes details of demand components. The slight quarterly growth was mainly driven by net ...

To sum up, November confidence data provides a mixed picture of the state of the Italian economy in the fourth quarter. From ...

A principal reason to brace ourselves for another round of the Italian debt crisis is that all of the factors that might allow that country to reduce its debt burden are now moving in the wrong ...

With net exports still volatile, a sustainable Italian GDP recovery would need a stable positive contribution from domestic demand. We haven't seen it yet, but it might, very gradually, start from the ...

Rising temperatures risk stunting the growth of the Italian economy over the coming decades, with sectors such as agriculture and tourism among the hardest hit, a Bank of Italy research project said ...

About the author: Desmond Lachman is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He was formerly a deputy director in the International Monetary Fund’s Policy Development and Review ...

Looking back, what is remarkable is how robust the Italian economy was from the 1950s to the 1990s. A large part of the story was simple catch-up. When six countries met in Rome in 1957 to sign the ...

When it comes to gauging the Italian economic outlook, we would do well to remember Herb Stein’s famous aphorism: If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. If ever that aphorism was true, it ...