1+ hour, 42+ min ago  (49+ words) On Monday, in the wake of a disastrous jobs report released late last week, economic analyst and former Treasury official Steve Rattner noted that a key economic indicator has plunged so low that it has erased "the entire post-pandemic recovery....

1+ hour, 37+ min ago  (462+ words) A conservative-leaning economist argued in The Wall Street Journal on Monday that President Donald Trump's trade policies are destroying America's economy " and two liberal-leaning experts who spoke with Alter Net agreed with him. After mentioning that Trump refused to renew…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago  (262+ words) Ohio will lose 51, 000 jobs and $5. 3 billion from the state economy in 2029, according to a new analysis. That's the effect that cuts to Medicaid and food assistance under a massive 2025 spending law will have when they're fully phased in. It's also…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (388+ words) President Donald Trump's economic policies are not just as bad as the Gilded Age, according to a Nobel Prize-winning economist. They surpass them. The Gilded Age was a period in American history from the late-19th century to the early-20th century…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (275+ words) Few people are as knowledgeable about the history of finance and money as Paul Krugman, and according to the Nobel Prize-winning economist, there is a 130-year-old theory that may help the world understand what motivates President Donald Trump and much…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (47+ words) President Trump has repeatedly pressured the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, claiming in a recent NBC interview that "there's no reason to raise interest rates." However, according to a recent report from financial site The Motley Fool, economic data…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (271+ words) On Friday, Elon Musk's Space X launched its initial public offering on the Nasdaq, but according to Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, it amounts to little more than a "shell game" as the world's richest person " who also happens to be…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (48+ words) President Donald Trump's wars against Venezuela and Iran, as well as his seemingly-planned war against Cuba, have constituted one of the worst self-dealt economic wounds a president has voluntarily inflicted upon themselves in American history, according to economic experts. In…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (51+ words) Inflation is primed to become catastrophically worse in one of the most important sectors, and according to The Washington Post, executives are still "doing everything they can" to get that fact across to President Donald Trump before it is too…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (223+ words) So far, over the first five months of 2026, the CPI is up 2. 52 percent," posted Europac Chief Economist Peter Schiff. If this pace continues for all of 2026, the CPI will rise 6. 2 percent, the most since 2022. But I think the second half…...