Sven Beckert’s epic history of trade identifies the ceaseless generation of wealth as the driving force behind capitalism’s ...

Workers at General Motors occupied factories for 44 days in Flint, controlling irreplaceable auto body dies. Michigan’s ...

A quarterly review finds that the U.S. economy’s increasingly K-shaped nature is making American consumption patterns uneven ...

Institutions and social norms have contributed to the creation of a segmented economy. From the beginning of our nation’s history our laws, institutions and social norms have contributed to the ...

Since Tuesday’s big Democratic electoral victories, I’ve been seeing some speculation to the effect that the 2024 election may be marked by a reverse coattail effect: that President Biden, whose poll ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Huang writes about Bitcoin and its wider impact on society. With attention now being focused on El Salvador for it being the ...

With most forecasters expecting the country to slip into a recession in the second half of 2023, the threat of a downturn is looming over the U.S. economy. But for some observers, it may feel like we ...

Russia’s oil industry has felt the sting of U.S. and G7 economic sanctions after the invasion of Ukraine. Storage facilities are filling up, refineries are cutting output and crude-oil wells are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS—The communities of New Orleans ...

The report reflects what was happening before the federal government shutdown began. The labor market may have changed since ...