At day 36, government shutdown is longest in US history
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In sizing up how the government shutdown is hurting the economy, independent economist Ethan Harris says it's "a small addition to several bigger and building policy shocks, including the trade war, and immigrant-reduction policy.
The US government just published an eye-popping report: Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the country's economic growth, grew at a stunning 33.1% annual rate in the third quarter. The US government just published an eye-popping report: Gross ...
In an era where trade has become both a political battleground and an economic bellwether, the United States' evolving tariff policy reveals much about our shifting priorities − and what might lie ahead for the nation’s economic future. For the past 50 ...
The 1971 Nixon Shock, as the tariffs, price controls and other measures the president deployed that August are known, also came at a time in American history in which the war in Vietnam and eventually Watergate contributed to concerns about the unchecked powers of the American presidency.
Paul Allin is a member of the UK National Statistician's Expert User Advisory Committee and he is the Royal Statistical Society's Honorary Officer for National Statistics. Views expressed in this article are personal do not necessarily represent those of ...
Autonomous vehicles could be one of the most productive innovations of all time, impacting global gross domestic product (GDP) by approximately 20% over the next decade. Weighing the potential positive economic impacts of autonomous taxis against the ...
For at least the past half century, most economists have viewed the history of slavery in the United States as morally abhorrent but economically advantageous. The argument has run that allocating work to forced laborers was productive, yielding tremendous ...
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