Trump's first term showed he's prone to "magical thinking," and his economic doctrine would hobble growth and stoke inflation ...

Like Henry Ford before him, Elon Musk has emerged as America’s top conspiracy spreader. But he’s hardly alone. Robert F.

Last week, employees at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., voted by almost 3-to-1 to join the United Automobile Workers. By the numbers, this wasn’t a big deal: It involved only a few ...

More than 30 years ago, economists Rudiger Dornbusch (one of my mentors) and Sebastian Edwards wrote a classic paper on what they called “macroeconomic populism.” Their motivating examples were ...

What about inflation? The past few inflation reports have been a bit high, but much of that, again, is probably statistical noise. The New York Fed has a measure that tries to extract the signal from ...

Paul Krugman is one of those dreaded liberal elitists who believes the economy is actually good. So (at a much lower level of confidence and frequency) am I. We have developed a number of ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. A sharp eye on media bias, official propaganda, and globaloney. As Krugman points out, basket-case proponents overlook Japan's unusual ...

Europe Nixes Net Zero, US Ramps Up “You know you’ve stumbled through the looking glass when European politicians start ...

Governments globally are intervening to prop up manufacturing but its efficacy is unclear. India’s government must address ...

President Ronald Reagan's reelection campaign famously posed the question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" ...

Modern examples of the syndrome include leftist governments like that of Venezuela, but also right-wing nationalist ...