who has become Trump's chief economic adviser. Last fall, he wrote A User's Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System. This document has become a textbook of current US policy. Here are two key ...

But “the fact that Trump did not say that Iran cannot have a nuclear program, which is what he insisted on when he scuttled Obama’s nuclear ... Iran’s economy is crippled,” with inflation ...

The big opinion news is that a new national survey for CBS News indicates that former President Joe Biden is off the hook and Trump is on the hot seat for the nation’s economic woes. Twice as ...

So why did President Trump back away from the broader tariff push? The answer is simple: the economic cost to the US was too high. As is clear, the US would have faced steep and immediate losses ...

“You have to laugh to keep from crying,” one Republican pollster said about recent comments by the billionaires on the stock market, retirement funds and Social Security. By Elisabeth Bumiller ...

But just a few seconds in, Trump hijacks the scene with a monologue, recapping the week’s economic headlines with his usual bravado. He then likens the recent rollercoaster in stock prices to ...

You might be wondering why the Trump administration decided to burn down the healthy economy it inherited. Is it pure incompetence? Or is there a plan? The answer to both questions appears to be yes.

But that calculus began to change at the end of the Obama administration, and Xi’s nationalistic rule sharpened the economic and geopolitical showdown between the two sides. Trump has argued ...

First lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump attend the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday in D.C. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Perhaps the best analogy for the first three ...

It’s not just the stock market. In the few weeks since President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs, a series of indicators from across the economy suggest anxiety — or even outright ...