Yes, China manipulates its currency, but it’s a form of generous foreign aid to Americans.

The 2008 elections will be a watershed moment in U.S. economic policy. The new president and Congress will face a number of decisions that will shape American policy for a generation. In addition to responding to the evolving financial crisis and the state of the economy, the next president must...

The U.S. economy creates more than 7 million new jobs every quarter, and millions of workers quit their jobs each month. What do these numbers mean for our understanding of the labor market? What impact does a fluid labor market have on productivity growth? How does the pace of job...

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The Democratic leadership has announced plans to pass an increase in the federal minimum wage soon after their party takes over Congress in January. The current rate of $5.15 per hour has not been raised since 1997. Some...

President Obama acts like he runs the US economy. However, his plans for economic recovery have hurt more than they have helped.

President Obama and his team came into office insisting that they were on top of things and above mere ideological considerations. They were wrong.

The fiscal stimulus was both so expensive and so badly flawed that it was rendered ineffective; a recent paper that vindicates the plan fails to measure the number of people who found work and the effectiveness with which the Obama stimulus created jobs.

How does raising the minimum wage affect employment?