Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Fred L. Smith Jr. Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The White House Council of Economic Advisers’ June 2025 report, ...

Excess regulation harms economic activity by increasing compliance costs and misallocating resources away from more profitable activities, thus discouraging innovation, investment, and economic growth ...

Every month, the federal government serves up a steady diet of economic reports on everything from the price of groceries to the unemployment rate. These reports are closely followed: They can move ...

Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled several economic proposals on Friday that would build on existing efforts from the Biden Administration to address higher costs of living—but with a notably more ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Black Americans have endured considerable injustices and barriers to prosperity and equality throughout U.S. history. But their social, economic and political advances in the 60 ...

President Joe Biden will leave the White House with a strong economy, historic gains in the job market, a foundation for future manufacturing growth, and having brought down decades-high inflation ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about investing, markets and Berkshire Hathaway. Barring significant dealmaking by the September 30 deadline, portions of ...

In the face of higher tariffs on virtually everything the United States imports, plus a Middle East crisis, the United States economy has, remarkably, held its ground. Inflation has mostly held steady ...

The U.S. could see hundreds of thousands leave the country this year thanks to President Donald Trump's immigration agenda, but experts believe his aggressive campaign of deportations and entry ...

The department said the cuts were happening due to the “elimination of federal grants supporting unemployment insurance and the federal government shifting costs to the states.” PHOENIX — On Tuesday, ...

Since 2015, American politics has been riven by deep splits over economic policy. The tilt toward free markets that began in the mid-1970s and lasted roughly until the election of Barack Obama is a ...