BLOOMINGTON — Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom. It is a celebration that, in today's political climate, is just as poignant as it ever was for the Rev. Elexis Thomas of Wayman AME Church in ...

Last week, exactly one month after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a jobs report bad enough to convince President Trump to fire the BLS commissioner, the bureau released a new jobs report that ...

President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement has always been more focused on vibes than policy—but if you had to boil it down to two basic economic ideas, it would be something like ...

Mr. Furman, a contributing Opinion writer, was the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017. The job slowdown in the past few months is significant and concerning.

America is becoming a nation of economic pessimists. A new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll finds that the share of people who say they have a good chance of improving their standard of living fell to 25 ...

The giants of Silicon Valley have a lot in common with Laura Ingalls Wilder, who portrayed her life on the prairie as a triumph of self-sufficiency, barely mentioning that the government underwrote ...

A good monsoon has meant farmers planting more kharif crops, pushing up fertiliser demand. This, and a supply shortfall due to lower domestic production and imports, has resulted in long queues at out ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- I have a visceral reaction when I read news like this. The Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority has urgently requested that landlords freeze rents in a desperate measure to buy ...

Economics, at its core, is the study of cause-and-effect relationships—analyzing how scarce resources, which have alternative uses, are allocated. Individuals respond to incentives, costs, and ...

Kate Middleton and Prince William Are Officially Moving to Their $21 Million “Forever Home” As They Seek a “Fresh Start” Millions told not to enter these Great Lakes Caught on Camera: Friday pursuit ...

Everything in moderation, even bad news. Economic data this week — from inflation figures and jobs numbers to retail sales — resisted attempts to construct a clean narrative of where things are headed ...