We’ve been checking in on the economic conditions in Venezuela for about a decade now. In response to the U.S. strike and the ...

Economic history examines the evolution of economies over time, integrating insights from quantitative data, qualitative narratives, and interdisciplinary approaches. Scholars investigate how ...

President-elect Trump will enter office with the lowest unemployment rate since Richard Nixon in 1969 - but red flags remain The U.S. labor market heated up in December, adding more jobs than expected ...

(Original Caption) High Officials Attend Funeral of William Woodin. Vice President John Nance Garner, (left), and Jesse Jones, Chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, pictured leaving the ...

The change in the average U.S. tariff rate in 2025 was the largest in the modern era. One way to assess the effects of such a ...

President Trump's new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China have unsettled both domestic and international markets, concerning investors and manufacturers. This emerging global trade war has raised ...

Democrats are faced with a sticky problem: The economy is nearing full employment after businesses added 210,000 jobs in November, labor force participation climbed to its highest level since the ...

Between the hot war in Europe and a brewing cold one between America and China, today’s world has a very 20th-century feel. Amid these echoes, historians and international-relations buffs have been ...

Joel Mokyr’s intellectual journey to the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics began at Yale, where he was Ph.D. student in the early 1970s under the mentorship of the late William Parker, a path-breaking ...

A leaflet distributed on yesterday's (Sat 28 Mar 09) 'Put People First' march in London. The leaflet argues against reformist demands as a response to the crisis and in favour of a radical ...