Since 2015, American politics has been riven by deep splits over economic policy. The tilt toward free markets that began in the mid-1970s and lasted roughly until the election of Barack Obama is a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brian Domitrovic is a historian of supply-side economics Last week in high school across the country, the biggest Advanced ...

An engraved portrait of American writer and economist Henry Charles Carey (1793-1879) Over the last few weeks President Donald Trump’s trade wars have triggered market instability, stoked fears of ...

The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term have been a whirlwind of activity, punctuated by action at the border, tariffs, turbulent markets, DOGE, multiple lawsuits, and constant ...

The president thinks he can return America to manufacturing glory — but the cycles of economic history are hard to break. Credit...Photo illustration by Derek Brahney Supported by By Binyamin ...

Economist Robert Gordon’s “special century” from 1870 to 1970 looms large in American economic history. As he argued in his 2016 book The Rise and Fall of American Growth, electricity lit homes and ...

There’s a story haunting American politics. It’s a story told by right-wing populists like Donald Trump and JD Vance and left-wing populists like Bernie Sanders. The story goes something like this: ...