Opinion

It’s Trump’s economy now

The September jobs report, released a month and a half late thanks to the government shutdown, contained some positive news that the Trump administration has reason to brag about. But it also revealed ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Labor Statistics says food prices have risen 2.7% compared to the same time last year.
Economic issues are the “core wood” that’s always burning, JB Mackenzie tells FOS. The post Robinhood Exec Says Prediction ...
Some 81.8 million people are expected to travel at least 50 miles from home over the Thanksgiving holiday period.
The war in Ukraine has been raging for almost four years; 11 if you start with Crimea’s annexation in 2014. So many ...
This is an audio transcript of The Economics Show podcast episode: ‘The Wolf-Krugman Exchange — Trump’s ‘vibecession’’ Martin ...
It’s two weeks now since the most recent elections, and as I try to wrap my head around reams of fevered commentary about the implications for the 2026 and 2028 elections, I find my thoughts returning ...
As President Donald Trump approaches the one-year anniversary of his second term in office, the FT’s chief economics ...
The IEA backtracking on its earlier stance on highlighting renewables and the speedy adoption of EVs in favour of oil production ...
Prediction markets have grown rapidly, driven by regulation, a dynamic fundraising landscape, and rising mainstream adoption, ...
The K-shaped economy has been a growing problem for decades, made worse by the loss of guaranteed worker pensions, the rise of the gig economy, increasing health-care inflation, the high cost of ...
A heated exchange over inflation, tariffs and rising deficits has reopened questions about whether Trump’s second-term policy choices helped trigger today’s affordability squeeze.