The good news is that the first 20 years of the millennium saw overall increases in economic freedom around the world—with continuous improvement through the second decade. The bad news is that not ...

President Donald Trump’s second term has rocked the boat thus far when it comes to U.S. engagement with Southeast Asia. The April 2 “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariff announcements not only threw the ...

Subsidies and tariffs won't spur a manufacturing revival. True American industrial strength rests on productivity, innovation and competition.

WASHINGTON — Shutdowns of the federal government usually don’t leave much economic damage. But the one that started Wednesday looks riskier, not least because President Donald Trump is threatening to ...

James Galbraith said he believes economic policies should aim to search for a set of balanced relationships that “respect ...

Government shutdowns can be political earthquakes that paralyze Washington, DC. But for the economy, shutdowns are often barely a blip. Whatever economic damage occurs during that time tends to be ...

Federal agencies said they would not release some key data during the shutdown. The government shutdown halted the release of key economic data, choking off the flow of information as some experts ...

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who advocates a "responsible and proactive fiscal policy," recently pushed ...

American industry has been getting a lot of hands-on direction from Democrats and Republicans for quite some time now. Every ...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Japan's economic revitalisation minister, Minoru Kiuchi, called on the central bank ...

By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) -The new head of the Bank for International Settlements has said reining in hedge funds' ...

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history ended late Wednesday.