It's premature to conduct a postmortem of the economic crisis of 2009 — which some people in the finance world are calling the Second Great Depression, or at least, the Great Recession — but it's not ...

There are a lot worse things you can do to a Republican presidential candidate than compare him or her to Ronald Reagan — or his or her policies to Reaganomics. But New Yorker writer John Cassidy ...

To take Ryan seriously, as all too many pundits and politicians insist we must, requires everyone to behave as if the plans he produced as House Budget Committee chairman represent a meaningful effort ...

With multiple reports confirming speculation that Vice President Kamala Harris will back President Biden’s tax hike plan, reactions have started pouring in from prominent figures in political and ...

There is a new brand of economic theory floating around, supported by left-leaning politicians and economists, and actually put into practice by the Trump administration and formerly conservative ...

Peter Teeley, who has died aged 84, was the press secretary to George Bush senior who coined the term “voodoo economics” for use against Ronald Reagan in 1980 when both men were running for the US ...

After years of hypocrisy and bungled forecasts of doom, the budget deficit no longer provokes panic. The elites need a new bogeyman, otherwise Congress might actually spend us into happiness. Now, the ...

Initial claims for unemployment benefits surged to 500,000 in mid-August, a level more typical of a recession than a recovery. The bad news confirmed what conservative economists have been saying for ...

Jake Sullivan, U.S. National Security Advisor speaks during the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is ...

Rep. Jeff Hurd has done an admirable job of presenting himself as a “serious” conservative, carefully choosing instances to push back on the Trump agenda. But for all of his political courage, he’s ...

Late one night in April 1980, when two future presidents were in a dogfight for the Republican party nomination, Peter Teeley sat at his typewriter trying to prepare a punchline for George H.W. Bush ...