Had workers kept their 1970 share of GDP, they would have earned $1.7 trillion more in 2023 alone. (Photo: Getty Images) Economists usually gauge a country’s economic health by looking at its gross ...

Did Stephen Colbert "reveal" Donald Trump's "1970 Wharton IQ test"? No, that's not true: This claim and its variations originated from accounts that warned their audiences that they do not post ...

The Trump administration has announced it closed out fiscal year 2025 with the lowest U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions since 1970. The preliminary enforcement figures, announced by the Department of ...

Jamie Dimon, head of America’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase — and commonly referred to as the ‘president of Wall Street’ — spent much of this past year warning that there’s an elevated risk that the ...

President Donald Trump has demanded action on Iran’s “nuclear dust” from an agency that ceased to exist more than 50 years ago, raising concerns that he is increasingly living in the past. The ...

Donald Trump invoked the 1890s in laying out the agenda for his second term. But from his demand for the Panama Canal to his declaration of a national energy emergency to his order releasing the ...

On Thursday, in a post on X, Economist Peter Schiff warned that, together, the policies of President Donald Trump and the potential interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve next week, “will be the ...

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Such a disparity between the haves and have nots has costs that undermine democracy, such as a lessening of social bonds. Economists usually gauge a country’s economic health by looking at its gross ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Economists usually gauge a country’s economic health by looking at its gross domestic ...