Investors love a simple narrative, and economists are delighted to oblige. There’s just one slight problem: The obvious stories about the U.S. economy have been repeatedly wrong since the Covid ...

Right now, the economy is all over the place. And when things get confusing, we look to basic economic indicators to help explain what's going on. Today, we're bringing you two episodes of our daily ...

Our Republican representatives' unwavering approval of Trump’s handling of the ongoing tariff fiasco once again demonstrates their total lack of understanding of even basic economics. In a best-case ...