Economy

Former President Donald Trump speaks to press in New York City, 2023. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is unhappy with Federal Reserve Chair…

A vignette of the United States Treasury Building, as it appears on the back of a ten-dollar bill.  Upping the ante following the…

President Joe Biden holds a meeting on tariffs in the Oval Office. 2022. Noah Smith recently found fault with several British writers who are…

Exterior of the Treasury Building in Washington, DC. The US Constitution includes carefully written rules for the government’s spending of money. Article I…

Art on a WWII poster promoting the benefits of price controls, provided to participating stores by the Office of War Information. National Archives.…

On offshore rig platform for oil production. Greedy oil companies are colluding to keep output low and prices high — or so claim…

A young man at a lemonade stand, making his first attempt at a productive venture. The sanitation or “hygiene hypothesis” holds that humans…

An aerial view of a solar power plant and large-scale generation windmills. From obscure academic topic to major campaign issue, ESG (Environmental, Social,…

Pro-Palestine protesters’ encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles. April 2024. The Berlin Wall’s collapse in 1989 was a deceptive victory. Exhilarated…

Relative prices track the strength of competing national currencies. If you make your currency less usable — say, by running aggravatingly high inflation,…