On May 6, 1935, in the depths of the Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the ...

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President Donald Trump wants to cap credit card interest rates. My socialist mayor wants to freeze rents. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) wants politicians to decide what prices are "excessive." So I ...

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You’ve heard of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and probably know how he helped America out of the Great Depression.“I pledge ...

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before signing an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Trump’s approach to ...

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With Presidents' Day officially here, the two former Commanders in Chief who probably get mentioned most often are George Washington, the first president, and Abraham Lincoln, the one who preserved ...

Noah Smith is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, and he blogs at Noahpinion. President Joe Biden’s transformative economic agenda ...