Journal Editorial Report: She proposes an economy of price controls and tax credits. Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images Kamala Harris’s proposal to impose price controls on food is the latest ...

America is so far defying the gloomiest economic forecasts, but tariff threats keep scrambling the good news. Why it matters: Inflation is at a four-year low, consumer sentiment might be on the mend ...

Nostalgia is, among other things, a coping mechanism. Psychologists say that when we are feeling depressed with current events, we often grow wistful about another time in the past when we believed ...

Heading into an election year with good economic numbers and bad polls has some political economists puzzled, but the connecting thread seems to be affordability. Though top-line metrics, like GDP, ...

Amid cascading crises — a stalemated war in Ukraine, a febrile and violent Middle East, a clash for primacy with China — it is easy to despair for America’s global position. Optimism might come from a ...

Good economics leads to good politics. Plenty of congratulations all the way around, as House Republicans defied conventional wisdom Tuesday night and passed a “one big beautiful bill” budget ...

The Misery Index attempts to measure economic unhappiness using rates of unemployment and inflation. data suggests Americans should be pretty happy, but polling indicates that's not the case. There's ...

When it comes to economic news, we’ve had so much winning that we’ve gotten tired of winning, or at any rate blasé about it. Last week, we got another terrific employment report — job growth for 39 ...

President Trump's administration finds itself at a crossroads where robust economic indicators coexist with a series of controversial decisions. The U.S. economy has shown remarkable resilience, with ...