Here's a quick timeline of how the situation unfolded: January 20. Trump is sworn into office. In his inaugural address, he again promises to “tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our ...

Influential Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana famously warned that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Judging by Donald Trump’s economic platform in his ...

The U.S. government has a history of bailing out institutions and individuals in extraordinary times. We look at the historical record to examine some of the most extensive programs. The COVID-19 ...

US President Donald Trump’s tariff decisions since he took office on Jan 20 have shocked financial markets and sent a wave of uncertainty through the global economy. Here is a timeline of the ...

Trump has praised tariffs as a fix for economic issues, but their erratic rollout and shifting reasons have worried investors. See a timeline of the president’s trade rhetoric.

Explore the five biggest economic bubbles in history, such as the tulip mania, the South Sea bubble and the dot-com bubble, including their causes and consequences.

In fact, our real-world economic history shows that an economic strategy of lower tax rates and spending is the best way to achieve strong economic growth. In the early 1920s, ...

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BERKELEY – The big lesson of the past 60 years of US economic policy, according to former vice chair of the US Federal Reserve and current Princeton University economist Alan S. Blinder’s new book, A ...

One of the earliest contributions to African economic history by an African scholar, this book by Nigerian historian Kenneth Dike remains a classic treatment of the interaction between shifting trade ...