Chuck Collins, co-founder of United for a Fair Economy and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, describes the difference between this financial crisis and those of the past. By ...

You may have spent Thanksgiving enduring fervent arguments about the economy and economic policy. Since it is the Christmas season and time to think about gifts, here are some books on economics and ...

Government spending stimulates the economy, while increasing taxes slows it. The stock market, a predictor of economic activity, suggests slower growth when prices fall. Say the word economics in a ...

Smarter policies and healthier citizens are worthy goals. But good intentions alone won’t deliver them. The MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement is coming for food stamps — but the law of ...

Investors love a simple narrative, and economists are delighted to oblige. There’s just one slight problem: The obvious stories about the U.S. economy have been repeatedly wrong since the Covid ...

Financial literacy deserves more attention in our schools, but not at the expense of economics, and not as a substitute for it (“Students Prepare for Real World With Personal Finance Classes,” ...