economics

Commentary With consumer spending accounting for more than two-thirds of the U.S. economy, the economic outlook of shoppers can be a strong indicator of overall financial trends. That’s why consumer ...

Commentary One of the first lessons in an economics class is every action has a cost. That is ...

Commentary Walter Williams loved teaching. Unlike too many other teachers today, he made it a point never to ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS)—The COVID-19 pandemic could result in net losses from $3.2 trillion up to $4.8 trillion in ...

Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg gave a "sobering" account of the economic damage the nation has sustained from the ...

Commentary Profits tend to equalize over all industries, setting aside differential risk. If profits are 50 percent in ...

In this episode of The China Report, we speak with Casey Fleming, CEO of BlackOps Partners, about allegations ...

Commentary Welcome to the year that sounds tailor-made for an optometrist’s office: 2020. Here’s wishing you all the ...

Commentary Earlier this month, the Brookings Institution asked 10 of their scholars, “What was the big story in ...

Commentary Many socialists don't understand socialism, and many commonly used narratives such as the "Nordic Model" are based ...

Commentary A generation or so ago, when million-dollar annual salaries in major league sports were starting to become ...

Commentary On April 19, writing in The New York Times, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz presented a case for ...

Commentary Conservatives have so many policy disagreements with progressives that it’s hard to keep track of them all. ...

Commentary Peggy Noonan, in a recent Wall Street Journal column, pointed to disturbing similarities between our times and ...

Commentary One of the most important issues of our time is the choice between capitalism and socialism. The ...

Commentary Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and other democratic socialists have embraced a new-old monetary ...

Most curricula and schools have failed to instill these time-tested values into the rising generation.

Commentary Something unusual and unexpected happened to me last week: I got an email from Janet Yellen, the ...

Commentary You’ve probably heard the saying that the Ark was built by amateurs, while the Titanic was built ...

People do not know what they might buy until they see what has been produced and brought to ...

According to conventional economic theory, free trade is a winner for developing and developed countries alike. That's how ...

With poll after poll saying the economy is the most important issue in the presidential election, the candidate ...

Capitalism for most people means people and corporations make the most money they can and accumulate as much ...

Dr Guido Menzio, at the age of 40, is one of the world's leading economists. On the evening of May ...

The biggest story so far in the 21st century has undoubtedly been the financial crisis of 2007-08. The ...

Lord Adair Turner, the ex-chief British financial regulator, lifts the mystery on what banks are really doing in ...

Uber price surging might just operate in an opposite world, where the law of supply and demand is ...