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Rates have been stuck at around 3.5 for the past three months. What’s going on? Just a few months ago, America seemed to have licked the...
Supercheap electric cars or an American industrial renaissance: Pick one. Chinese electric vehicles—cheap, stylish, and high quality—should be a...
The president turned one of the most popular ideas in politics into reality. So far, no one seems to care. Suppose the president asked you to design...
America’s superstar cities have avoided the post-pandemic death spiral so far. Will that last? The pandemic was supposed to be the death of the...
A mix of big spending and big government has helped the U.S. avoid Europe’s post-pandemic struggles. The Old World has new problems. Over the...
A heated academic debate reveals how divorced economic analysis can be from reality. Everyone knows that inequality has gotten out of hand in the...
Why Americans trust feelings more than facts when it comes to prosperity What was the worst moment for the American economy in the past half century?...
Last year, the crime and inflation crises largely evaporated. So did the leading theories about what had caused them. America entered 2023 with two...
A new study finds that news coverage of the U.S. economy has become disproportionately pessimistic in the last few years. The jobs report released...
The politics of solving climate change may, paradoxically, require producing more fossil fuels for a while. If all goes well, 2023 will be remembered...
The end of artificially cheap money should herald a fairer, more sustainable economy. Americans just have to survive the transition. When inflation...
Was the country’s turn toward free-market fundamentalism driven by race, class, or something else? Yes. If there is one statistic that best...
The number of American public companies has decreased by half since 1996. How can that be? The publicly traded company is disappearing. In 1996, about...
Turns out you can tame inflation without triggering a recession. Will the Federal Reserve accept the good news? If you were trying to engineer a...