Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christian Weller is an economist focused on retirement inequality. Economic policy uncertainty has surged since President Donald Trump’s election. This could be bad, not just for the ...

Economist Robert Shapiro warns that Trump’s economic policies and threats to the Fed could push the U.S. into a severe recession. You were on the show a few months back, actually at the start of the Trump administration. And in fact, you were one of our ...

America’s rupture with allies, institutions, and global economic norms has left the next U.S. president an international economic system that bears little resemblance to the one that preceded it. The task at hand is not restoration but reinvention.

A massive jump in economic policy uncertainty, highlighted by President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again tariffs and other policy back and forth, has characterized the first few months of his second term. Above average increases in economic policy ...

Inflation has cooled so much over the past year that even Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is pleased with the progress. But, in poll after poll, Americans have sent a clear message: They aren’t. That has created a prime opportunity for Vice President ...

As strategic competition intensifies, the United States needs a clearer way to use finance, trade, industrial policy, and regulation to strengthen its own defense base while making it harder for adversaries to turn economic strength into military power.

Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng presented his credentials to President Joe Biden at the Oval Office on a humid summer afternoon in 2023. Less well-known is that following his presentation, Xie’s first official meeting was not at the State Department with his ...

Discover how Reaganomics affected taxes, government spending, and regulation through President Reagan's policies based on trickle-down economics.