2+ hour, 2+ min ago  (729+ words) There is a simple way to cut through the noise about whose economy is stronger " Donald Trump's or Joe Biden's. Pick a moment in time under each president and compare the numbers side by side. The best comparison is the…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (999+ words) Indiana is ground zero for President Donald Trump's trade war damage " and the worst is still ahead. The Supreme Court recently struck down Trump's largest tariff authorization, briefly thrilling hundreds of Republican officeholders facing the worst electoral prospects since Herbert…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (770+ words) Quality of life matters more to businesses than it does to households. That may seem counterintuitive, but the data are unambiguous and the implications for economic development are profound. For years, I've written about how quality of life drives regional…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (118+ words) Twenty years ago, manufacturing constituted about 11% of all American jobs. Today, its about 9%, after losing 1.6 million jobs. Marcus: How do we ask young people to make choices in uncertain times? My grandson was sitting next to me at dinner a…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (916+ words) The Federal Reserve's 0.25% interest rate cut, announced Sept. 17, will have little economic effect by itself. The most important aspect of the move is what it tells us about tariffs and the damage MAGA policies are having on the U.S. economy. The…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (201+ words) The grand lesson of the China Shock was that well-educated workers living in cities full of better-educated workers thrived, even when facing deep factory job losses. Education made these places more ... A fantastically high share of our debate over economic…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (101+ words) One great irony of our times is that the claims of economic decline that animate both the MAGA movement and the Democratic Socialists of America are indistinguishable from one another. Both camps ... One great irony of our times is that…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (727+ words) The average American family will pay about $2,500 more this year because of tariffs. But unlike inflation, your wages won't rise to compensate. That's because tariffs work differently than inflation. Tariffs cause an increase in the price of goods, both imported…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (624+ words) We've all heard the phrase "winds of change" used as a metaphor for powerful forces driving transformative change. With President Donald J. Trump and his tariffs, it's more like the "whims of change." Trump announced big tariff increases in Indiana's largest…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (960+ words) I'm often asked, "What has happened to the middle class?" The best answer I can think of puts the question into historical context, if only because so many folks are thinking back to their childhood." The end of World War…...