A recent co-survey on 49 economists by the Financial Times put the U.S. growth at 1.6 percent for 2025, down from 2.3 percent reported in December, while revealing a near consensus that the ...

Since his inauguration, Trump has promised a swift economic upswing, a lowering of grocery prices, and a “Golden Age.” All of these promises have fallen short. There has not been an economic surge; on ...

Trump's corruption is one thing; his cruelty is quite another, and the most dangerous of his agenda.

Federal law seeks to make communications technology like telephones and the internet, in the words of one older statute, ...

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill, which raised American tariffs (taxes) on imports by the second-highest amount in U.S. history. This bill had disastrous consequences, when ...

Our age is awash in speculative nonsense. From the rise and fall of NFTs to the pervasive promises of cryptocurrencies, our ...

Ben Stein became a “Generation X” icon with his timeless role as a beleaguered high school economics teacher in the 1986 cultural touchstone, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” In his star-making scene, ...

The Border Patrol logged more than 140,000 apprehensions in February 2024. That is more than 16 times as many as last month.

The U.S. stiock market has dropped considerably over the last week amid concerns over the impacts of President Donald Trump's ...

The federal government under President Herbert Hoover was criticized for a lack of sweeping reforms early in the economic ...

The IRS ramped up efforts in 2023 to track down tax cheats capitalizing on funding it received from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. A year after the agency began it reported that it had ...

Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed economists who discussed the... President Trump's new tariffs on Canada ...