Economic cycles are normal ebbs and flows in the economy that happen in a repeating pattern. Read more about them inside.

The optimum policy is credible enforcement of entry rules and integration of those already here.

Nearly a year into his second term, President Trump is facing growing skepticism as Americans feel persistent cost-of-living ...

The fundamental principles of economics are based on human nature and do not change regardless of how they are interpreted. People behave certain ways on an individual and societal level based on the ...

E conomics has achieved much; there are large bodies of often-nonobvious theoretical understandings and of careful and sometimes-compelling empirical evidence. The profession knows and understands ...

I remember my professor of economic history David S. Landes often talking about Joel Mokyr, who won the Nobel Prize in economics earlier this month. They must have been good friends. Professor Landes ...

This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in economic sciences was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for their work explaining innovation-driven economic growth and the process of ...

The U.S. economy grew at a robust 2.8% in the second quarter, far faster than economists’ predictions of just 2%. The miss is reminiscent of a long losing streak for doomsaying about the U.S. economy.

Hanauer is an entrepreneur, a venture capitalist, the founder of the public-policy incubator Civic Ventures, and (with Joan Walsh and Donald Cohen) an author of the new book "Corporate Bullsh*t: ...