So, then, why are so many historians afraid?

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Job creation is probably worse than we know, but we can’t be sure without a new jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Good point! But what Antoni didn’t grasp (or didn’t want to grasp) was ...

Stock investors have been shrugging off negative economic data and pushing indexes to records. But the relationship between equities and economic data can flip at a moment's notice. When that happens, ...

American industry has been getting a lot of hands-on direction from Democrats and Republicans for quite some time now. Every few years, someone looks at the underwhelming results of this economic ...

A new working paper by Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University, Erica Groshen, former head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics ( ...

U.S. politics is apt to conflate disagreements about whether a policy is good or bad with disputes about whether it is constitutional. Reactions to the Supreme Court's ruling on President Donald Trump ...

The issue of whether, when and how government should take actions within an economy goes back some 400 years, yet remains a hot one today. Indeed, there are few news articles not involving it. So a ...

A recent survey by Generation Lab found that more than 8 in 10 young adults rate economic conditions in the U.S. as either ...

Democrats won nearly all of last November’s off-year elections by successfully weaponizing the term “affordability.” Inflation is down from Biden-era levels, but it is still too high. The middle class ...

The August jobs report on Friday morning confirmed what the market had expected after July's slowing job growth and prior months' revisions: The labor market's Cal Ripken-esque run of indefatigability ...

U.S. politics is apt to conflate disagreements about whether a policy is good or bad with disputes about whether it is constitutional. Reactions to the Supreme Court’s ruling on President Donald Trump ...