Economist Arthur Laffer might be best known for the Laffer Curve, a representation of the relationship between tax rates and tax revenue, but what he really wants you to know about today is how to ...

I’m not trying to change your mind. I’m trying to do something much more challenging. I am trying to be right on the facts and analysis.

A specter is haunting mainstream economics. It is the specter of . . . modern monetary theory? So recent essays from Harvard luminaries Kenneth Rogoff and Lawrence Summers attest. For Rogoff, MMT is ...

Donald Trump keeps flipping and flopping on tariffs. Many are scheduled to kick in on Aug. 1, but who knows. Nevertheless, U.S. households and businesses need to gird their loins for the biggest and ...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday dismissed climate activist Greta Thunberg, saying the Swedish teen and Time Person of the Year should first go to college and study economics before she ...

Sunday, April 14, 2024 -- The path to a "soft landing" doesn't seem as smooth as it did four months ago. But the expectations of a year ago have been surpassed. EDITOR'S NOTE: Ben Casselman writes ...

UK exports to the US surged in advance of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Explain the rationale for an export surge before the tariffs were introduced Define comparative advantage With reference to ...

For the first time in decades, inflation fills the headlines. An increase in the general level of prices reflects the falling purchasing power of money. A fundamental confidence in the power and ...