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new economy

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noun

  1. the postindustrial world economy based on internet trading and advanced technology

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“An explicit downgrade of the growth target would lower the demand for stimulus, particularly as exports and the new economy continued to support headline growth in the K-shaped recovery,” the economists said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

We don’t know the limits of what we can do, or what the new economy will look like.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

Few of the tech names that have ended up dominating the new economy were among the big names of 2000.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 31, 2025

Middle managers have been saddled with more underlings and it’s creating a whole new economy.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2025

Sugar was the product of the slave and the addiction of the poor factory worker—the meeting place of the barbarism of overseers such as Thomas Thistlewood and the rigid new economy.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson