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Betsey StevensonChicago Tribune |
Economists spend a lot of time talking about jobs. Work is not only how people support themselves financially, it can also be the way in which they...
Recessions are notoriously difficult to predict. At the end of 2019, for example, many pundits were forecasting a recession simply because the boom...
‘Tis the season for headlines about the prices of some very specific items, such as a 16-pound turkey (down from last year) or a Christmas tree...
As a kid, I was obsessed with the Salem witch trials. Not the witches themselves, although there is something to be said for women using magic to...
A federal government shutdown has been averted for now, but the countdown will begin again in January, when this round of funding runs out. The...
As it turns out, the big economic story of 2023 is not a recession, as many had predicted — it’s the disconnect between consumer sentiment and...
The typical American is a lot richer now than they were just before the pandemic — and this improvement is at least partially due to government...