Countries in the Global South increasingly view President Trump’s “America First” foreign economic policies as both a coercive force and a catalyst for greater economic autonomy.

State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.

Textbook monetary economics views inflation as fundamentally driven by aggregate shocks, such as money supply or policy rates. This column presents empirical evidence that inflation is highly granular – it is significantly influenced by the prices set by a small number of large firms. Based on an analysis of 2.9 billion barcode-level transactions spanning 16 economies, it shows that firm-level idiosyncratic shocks account for a substantial share of inflation variability in advanced economies. Granular forces were also a key driver of the 2021–22 inflation shock and are shown to slow down the transmission of monetary policy.

Gov. Kathy Hochul justified a $1 billion natural gas project by appealing to affordability. But the main reason the state needs the energy is because data centers are hogging it.

Voters Split on Trump’s Job Performance as Economic Issues Top Voters’ Concerns A new Emerson…Full Release & Results

The state Supreme Court appointed two three-judge panels to hear lawsuits challenging Wisconsin's congressional lines before the 2026 elections.

CoreCivic and GEO Group profit from Trump’s immigration policies while also receiving lucrative contracts from state and local governments, including areas controlled by Democrats.

How Juan Guaidó sucked a weary nation dry, and primed it for the current U.S.-led assault

A settlement with algorithmic collusion facilitator RealPage allows it to keep allegedly ill-gotten profits and continue innovating to raise rents.

The attorney general did not provide any evidence to support her claims, which the campaign called false.

Just three companies sell roughly half of all turkeys. Excessive consolidation increases the risk of price-fixing and harmful supply chain disruptions, both of which have come to roost in the turkey i...

In New York, one of the toughest challenges that Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani faces will be preserving and increasing the supply of affordable housing. Same story in Boston, where progressive Mayor Mich...

Intended to bolster local access to lending, large credit unions today are swallowing up community banks. A Trump purge has reduced their oversight.

Deposits are the raw materials with which bankers play, the key to unlocking market power, as Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase demonstrate.

The Republican plan to more than double premiums is gone, but the insurance will get worse, and the poor will pay more.

The Justice Department has settled its case against real estate tech firm RealPage, which faced bombshell allegations of building algorithms that allowed landlords to illegally collude to jack up r…