Macroeconomics studies an overall economy or market system, its behaviors, the factors that drive it, and how to improve its performance.

Discover the complexities of inflation, including stagflation, hyperinflation, and deflation. Learn their causes, effects on ...

Just how important is money? Few would deny that it plays a key role in the economy.­ During the Great Depression of the 1930s, existing economic theory was unable either to explain the causes of the ...

Aug 8 (Reuters) - The era of laissez-faire monetarism is over, as the world moves by small but inexorable steps towards a new kind of Keynesian demand management. One after another, governments and ...

Joe Biden and his team spent much of last weekend telling us that a recession isn’t inevitable. Larry Summers, the former Clinton Treasury secretary and Obama economics adviser, says otherwise, ...

Before I explain why Seattle should adopt a zero unemployment program in the manner it adopted Sawant's call for a $15 minimum wage in the middle of the previous decade, I want to provide the needed ...

WASHINGTON - FEBRUARY 02: White House Office of Managment and Budget Director Peter Orszag testifies before the Senate Budget Committee about the Obama Administration's FY2011 budget on Capitol Hill ...

If anyone had any lingering doubts about where American economic policy is heading over the next four years, those should have been removed by President Joe Biden’s proposed $6 trillion budget for ...

Delta-variant scare tactics notwithstanding, the United States economy is exiting the coronavirus age. The government’s emergency actions over the past year that forestalled an economic crash are now ...

In July 2024, after U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris entered the race to become president, a claim that her father is a Marxist economist began to circulate online (archived): Fun fact: Did you know ...