President Trump said in the debate he oversaw the greatest economy in history. The economy was very strong prior to the pandemic, but the data doesn’t back up the notion it was the greatest ever.

Adam N. Michel focused on tax policy and the federal budget as a Senior Policy Analyst in the Grover M. Hermann Center. TCJA reforms will soon expire, and the Democrats’ plan for proposed and ...

President-elect Trump will enter office with the lowest unemployment rate since Richard Nixon in 1969 - but red flags remain The U.S. labor market heated up in December, adding more jobs than expected ...

The book that I want someone to write would be an economic history of higher education. If we can understand the long-running economic structures that have driven the growth and development of the ...

Democrats are faced with a sticky problem: The economy is nearing full employment after businesses added 210,000 jobs in November, labor force participation climbed to its highest level since the ...

While there are tensions between the U.S. and China about trade and technology, climate change is an area where the pair could work together. WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib explains why it could also lead to ...

Since Tuesday’s big Democratic electoral victories, I’ve been seeing some speculation to the effect that the 2024 election may be marked by a reverse coattail effect: that President Biden, whose poll ...

Underlying economic and market factors mattered in previous presidential rematches. They may help President Biden, even if polls aren’t showing that so far. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes ...

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In a 1987 article in the Times Book Review, Robert Solow, a Nobel-winning economist at M.I.T., commented, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Despite massive ...

A leaflet distributed on yesterday's (Sat 28 Mar 09) 'Put People First' march in London. The leaflet argues against reformist demands as a response to the crisis and in favour of a radical ...

• While unemployment was near historical lows under Trump, growth in gross domestic product was well below what previous presidents achieved, and other metrics such as wages and business investment ...