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Bad trade policy helped prolong the Great Depression. Even a muted repeat of this experience is terrifying. Stock prices have tumbled, and anxieties have soared with the White House announcement...

In the run-up to this year’s presidential election, President Biden, like previous incumbents, would like the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. It would not only boost financial markets but...

This week, there has been some good and some bad news about our economy. The good news is that the economy continues to create jobs at a highly satisfactory pace...

Another fallout from inflation can be added to the list: emergency savings. As reported by CNBC, roughly a third of U.S. adults are contributing less to their emergency funds in...

It’s been known for a while that the pandemic-era relief programs, in which the government paid out trillions of dollars over the course of just over two years, were plagued...

During the second half of 2021, when the expanded child tax credit provided most American families with payments from the federal government each month, a debate was had over whether...

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was launched by Congress in the early months of the pandemic. The program handed out around $800 billion in relief to American businesses affected by...

If the highly contentious Build Back Better legislation already had been signed into law, approximately thirty-six million American families would be waiting for their second payment of the year from...

Friday morning saw the release of a blockbuster jobs report, as the U.S. economy saw an increase in 467,000 jobs in January, despite the Omicron variant running wild for a...

The IRS announced in November 2021 that it will launch a new online identity verification process using the provider ID.me.  The verification features will be in effect for different portals...

Many Americans have been worried for years that Social Security won’t be there for them when they retire. A survey taken last July by Nationwide found that 71 percent of...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Demands like those of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and her colleagues to expand the spending policies included in the legislation will only increase the challenges faced...