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New York showed a steady hand in its post-9/11 recovery—its present mayor should heed the lessons. Read More

Eight times a year, financial America stops to listen to the Federal Reserve. Traders watch the clock. Television networks interrupt regular... Read More

It is impossible to escape the negativity toward bonds these days. And with good reason, I suppose, since the returns from the asset class... Read More

The US employment report for August hit the wires last Friday, and headline jobs growth blew expectations out of the water. But our interest... Read More

Today's jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics came in stronger than expected, with the U.S. economy adding 162,000 jobs in August.... Read More

Voters haven’t changed their minds about immigration or manufacturing: They want what Trump promised — and what the latest figures show... Read More

Conservatives and libertarians must stop pandering. They’ve long done it with taxes and education, and now they’re doing it with... Read More

Too many await a great wealth transfer.  Read More

Financial markets are supposed to provide valuable information about how investors view the economy. However, that signal is clearest when... Read More

We are repeatedly told that the rich hoard all the wealth and income in America and that socialist Europe has a more equal society.... Read More

n their new book, Austrian Economics: An Introduction, Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall, both professors of economics, offer a concise,... Read More

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is approaching the end of eight years in office. It’s a good time to put away the campaign... Read More

Small business owners in New York sued the Mamdani regime for using taxpayer dollars to compete against them, threatening the American Dream. Read More

The empty husks of malls litter American suburbia, and reformers from Tallahassee to Olympia, Washington, have put a lot of stock into a... Read More

America's debate over water is becoming a familiar story, unfortunately, its a horror story. Competing interests take legitimate concerns and... Read More

How much would a 0.25% hike really matter?  Read More

They have been but the higher rates go the less likely that remains true. Read More

What can the UK government learn from British Airways' handling of the Avios programme? Quite a lot, as it turns out. Read More

Trump is reaching for a more drastic trade war weapon, with new threats to shut foreign goods out of the U.S. altogether. Read More

Were millennials doomed to be period of lower stock market returns? Read More

Sometimes you just need a day off.  Read More

Here's what's happening below the surface Read More

Why I moved from hold to hike ahead of the Fed's September meeting. Read More

The evidence for a hot economy keeps racking up. Read More

Employment fell in cities where ICE enforcement surged in 2025, with no signs of recovery so far, Marcela Escobari and co-authors find. Read More

A look at the fall of dollar assets in global official foreign exchange reserves and how it reflects the actions of a handful of large... Read More