Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., says possible port strikes across America could really 'exacerbate' supply ...
Why is there so much violence in Balochistan?
Editor’s note: On February 7th, a day before Pakistan’s national election, two explosions outside the offices of political candidates in ...
How Donald Trump’s re-election would threaten NATO’s Article 5
Editor’s note (February 14th 2024): This piece was updated after Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary-general, announced that 18 of the alliance’s ...
How will Democrats replace Joe Biden as their candidate for president?
Editor’s note: On July 21st President Joe Biden said that he would not stand as the Democratic Party’s candidate in ...
Equitable Growth invests in new research to better understand the effects of the fiscal response to the COVID-19 recession
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth today announced a new cohort of grantees in response to a Request for Proposals ...
Markets now wonder if the Fed might cut by half a point in September
With Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell all but confirming that an interest rate cut is imminent, the market's attention Friday ...
New economic analyses of the 2017 Trump tax cuts find mixed effects that policymakers should consider when those tax cuts expire in 2025
Former President Donald Trump’s hallmark economic policy was a swathe of tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations in ...
As Democrats gather in Chicago, the city is still bogged down by high inflation
Former JPMorgan Chase chief economist Anthony Chan reacts to Kamala Harris saying it will be ...
Where are high prices still hitting Americans the hardest?
Former IMF chief economist Kenneth Rogoff discusses the state of the economy following the July ...
Hospital consolidation and rising health care prices lead to job losses for U.S. workers
Overview The majority of working-age adults in the United States have health insurance via their employers. Theory and a growing body ...
What is the Chinese Communist Party’s third plenum?
Between July 15th and 18th members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party are meeting for its third plenum, ...