Economy

Dramatic moment: US forces board vessel accused of transporting Iranian oil

Treasury announces new sanctions on Chinese refineries ‘fueling Iran’

Claire Carter · October 2, 2026 11:06 am

FILE - This image from video provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via DVIDS shows manufacturing plant employees waiting to have their legs shackled at the Hyundai Motor Group's electric vehicle plant, Sept. 4, 2025, in Ellabell, Ga. (Corey Bullard/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP, File)

Immigration groups that want mass deportations blame Big Business for delay

Inspiration and innovation in communication technologies artificial intelligence AI

Looking for human opportunity in an AI world

An American Airlines jet comes in for a landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Saturday, June 14, 2025

American Airlines cuts profit prediction amid high fuel prices, following industry trend

Rep. Robyn Kelly speaks with former federal workers.

DC region saw the most lost jobs in US last year, BLS data show

For the tax plan backed by President Trump, the most Democratic votes Sen. Mitch McConnell could hope for is three. The state of affairs is attributable partly to the Democratic Party moving left on taxes as the Republican Party has moved right, as well as the greater influence of liberal Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Mitch McConnell faces dug-in Democrats on tax reform

Joseph Lawler August 13, 2017 4:01 am

From their perspective, government shouldn't simply control the means of economic production, it should actively work to reduce GDP. (Pixabay)

The far-left has an idiotic new craze: reduce economic growth

Tom Rogan August 11, 2017 4:58 pm

Harvard economist George Borjas is immigration critics' favorite intellectual. His work is regularly cited by the White House, top Republican lawmakers, and conservative pundits to justify policies that would keep more people out of the country. Without his work, they would be hard-pressed to find any academic or scholar making the same arguments. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

The Cuban-born Harvard economist who immigration critics love

Sean Higgins August 11, 2017 4:01 am

Advocates of a higher minimum wage have scaled back their push for a $15-an-hour rate, holding fewer events this year than they have since the movement began in 2014.

Minimum wage advocates scale back their $15 fight

Sean Higgins August 10, 2017 11:15 pm

The Family Business Coalition, an advocacy group for businesses, said Thursday that the economists had endorsed a reissued letter written by late Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman laying out the case for repealing the tax. Friedman, a conservative icon, criticized the estate tax on the grounds that it "taxes virtue" by penalizing people who have saved throughout their lives. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

GOP goal of repealing estate tax endorsed by 700 economists

Joseph Lawler August 10, 2017 9:27 pm

Republican Reps. Bob Goodlatte and Jeb Hensarling are seeking a formal reversal to ensure that agencies don't prevent banks from serving certain customers. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Republicans ask Trump to end Operation Choke Point fraud initiative

Joseph Lawler August 10, 2017 7:06 pm

The U.S. Postal Service reported a $573 million increase in losses from a year earlier, driven by less mail being delivered as technology replaces the stamp and envelope. (AP Photo/Alex Washburn, File)

Postal Service posts $2.1 billion loss in quarter

Sean Higgins August 10, 2017 3:24 pm

Forecasters had expected jobless claims not to rise much above the previous week's very low level of 240,000. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Jobless claims inch up to 244,000, economy extends best hot streak in 43 years

Joseph Lawler August 10, 2017 12:32 pm

Stocks and other business ownership interests make up the bulk of wealth for people with a net worth of at least $50 million, according to new IRS data. (iStock by Getty images)

How the super-rich keep their wealth

Joseph Lawler August 10, 2017 4:01 am

In a court filing, the agency said that it is planning to extend the effective date for the remaining provisions of the "fiduciary rule" until July of 2019. (Wikipedia Commons)

Labor Department to delay financial conflicts-of-interest rule

Joseph Lawler August 9, 2017 8:33 pm

The latest gender scandal comes from Google, where now-former employee James Damore wrote his infamous 10-page memo on the company's diversity policy. The memo itself is not scandalous, but you wouldn't know that from the media coverage or online outrage in response. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google it: men and women are different, and that’s okay

Hadley Heath Manning - contributor August 9, 2017 8:06 pm

James Bullard, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, said in an interview on Bloomberg TV that economic growth is likely to putter along at a 2 percent rate at least for the next year. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Fed official: Don’t expect faster growth soon

Joseph Lawler August 9, 2017 6:27 pm