As Nobel season intersects with hurricane season, we’re getting a potent reminder of the problems with cost-benefit analysis and letting markets direct our lives.

Donald Trump rambled about “beautiful” circles and defined “groceries” during a speech at the Detroit Economic Club.

Even Donald Trump’s surrogate couldn’t really defend the foundation of his economic plan.

You’ve surely read that tariffs would just tax regular Americans. You may not have read how they’d work to make the rich richer.

J.D. Vance accidentally exposed how clueless both he and Donald Trump are about economic policy.

Try to make any sense of what Trump said here.

Kamala Harris has released her economic agenda—and it would change everything.

Donald Trump’s latest attack on Kamala Harris doesn’t really hold up.

Tim Jackson found unlikely fame by arguing that slower growth will actually make us happier—and more prosperous.

Trump has been ripping off hardworking people for decades. Now he’s chosen a running mate who’s made millions pretending to be a hillbilly. They’re the perfect people to lead the party of grift.

The former president went on a bizarre rant at Thursday’s debate about immigrants taking “Black jobs”—no one knows what he means.

Sixteen economists predict that a second Trump term would cause inflation to skyrocket.

Trump a populist? Populism came about to lower tariffs!

Yes, they want to cut taxes on rich people again. It’s an obsession that goes back to the ’80s—the 1880s.

Yes, the United Auto Workers lost last week in Tuscaloosa. But you probably haven’t heard about the recent union victories in the region.

First, Trump slapped tariffs on China. Now Biden has increased them. Is this wise economic policy or just political one-upmanship?

There are Democratic jobs and Republican jobs, apparently, and guess which are growing faster.

Congress approved the construction of the Yazoo Pumps more than 80 years ago. They might finally be built—and disproportionately benefit white landowners.

But, for now, it’s all we've got.