Economics

You Shouldn't Care How Stocks React to Donald Trump

By Eli Cook

Why It’s the Perfect Time to Raise the Federal Minimum Wage

By Chris Lu

The First Thing Democrats Must Do to Fix the Economy

By Felicia Wong

There’s No Advantage Washing Your Hands with Hot Water

By The Aspen Institute
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The New Conspicuous Consumption

A review of The Sum of Small Things by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

By Sarah Begley

Universal Basic Income: A Utopian Idea Whose Time May Finally Have Arrived

A 500-year-old idea may hold the key to solving some of the world's most vexing economic problems

By Matt Vella

Trump’s Pro-Coal Orders Are Doomed to Fail

Nature and market forces are both working against him

By Per Espen Stoknes and Tom Bowman

Small Business Growth Has Stalled and That’s Bad for All of Us

Four reasons why it's happened, including risks that don't exist and student debt

By Jayson DeMers

The Unseen Threat to America: We Don’t Leave Our Hometowns

Poverty and low incomes have flipped from being reasons to move to reasons not to go anywhere

By Tyler Cowen

This Tax Could Win Over Donald Trump While Helping the Environment

A new Republican proposal for a 'carbon dividend' makes business sense

By Matthew J. Kotchen

Pay Women More If You Want a Stronger Economy

It's an essential, just act of stimulus

By Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney and Heidi Hartmann

A $15 Minimum Wage Is Not the Best Way to Help Poor Workers

Without a federal increase, it will hurt the few people it helps—but there is another way

By Harry J. Holzer

3 Ways to Make America's Economy Great Again

Restore economic mobility

By Jim Shelton, Debby Bielak and Devin Murphy

On Taiwan, Donald Trump Lays Down the Gauntlet to China

No U.S. President has had direct contact with Taiwan since diplomatic relations were severed in 1979

By Charlie Campbell / Beijing

Don't Count on Donald Trump's Wall Street Love Affair to Last

Trump fans think it's morning in America. How long can he game that confidence?

By Peter Atwater

370 Economists: 'Do Not Vote For Donald Trump'

‘He promotes magical thinking and conspiracy theories over sober assessments of feasible economic policy options’

By IDEAS Desk

How Under-Confidence Hurts the Economy

'Our perceptions, decisions and actions become very “me, here, now"'

By Peter Atwater

How Businesses Could Skirt the New Overtime Law

And how employees will benefit either way

By Daniel S. Hamermesh

How America Can Get Out of Its Economic Swamp

Focus on long-term spending

By Eugene Ludwig

Janet Yellen Should Stand Up to Donald Trump

She's the best person to run the Fed right now

By Rana Foroohar
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