Elizabeth Warren urges President Obama to remove the head of the SEC
A long-running feud between a leading critic of the finance industry in the Senate and the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission reached a new peak on Friday, when...
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Best and worst spots for new jobs traded places in the past 20 years
There was a time in America when economic expansions bore more fruit for small towns than big cities. That time was the 1990s: After the 1991 recession, according to Census...
Research shows minimum wage hikes were followed by employment increases
An incredibly simplistic argument breaks out every time liberal groups push to raise the federal minimum wage. We'll lose jobs, opponents say. No we won't, supporters say. There's a large...
Obama moves to agitate big business
President Barack Obama has negotiated with business leaders periodically during his presidency and, at times, joined with them to push issues such as expanded international trade or comprehensive immigration reform....
Report: Pacific Rim trade deal may boost U.S. exports, but could force American workers to find new jobs
A Pacific Rim trade deal championed by the Obama administration represents a "landmark accord" that would yield considerable economic gains for the United States and 11 other nations, boosting exports...
Bernie Sanders’s health-care plan is the biggest attack on the rich of this campaign
Last fall, the Wall Street Journal estimated Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care plan would cost the government a whopping $15 trillion over a decade. Sanders' campaign objected - loudly -...
What does an influx of low-skilled immigrants mean for the economy?
Only at an economics conference will people talk for two hours about immigration and never mention Donald Trump. What they discussed instead Sunday afternoon, on the opening day of the...
Trump’s businesses feel few adverse effects from an unfiltered candidate
Donald Trump's statements about Muslims and Latinos have drawn widespread rebuke from politicians in both parties and many other national leaders. But the companies that do business with Trump have...
This might be the most controversial theory for what’s behind the rise of ISIS
A year after his 700-page opus "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" stormed to the top of America's best-seller lists, Thomas Piketty is out with a new argument about income inequality....
Why Donald Trump is winning
There is a deep economic anxiety driving Republican voters toward the blunt-spoken presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump. It is more than just anger at the political class or rebellion...