Paul Solman: On Tuesday, we posted the first transcript from a series of interviews I’ve done with Paul Samuelson over the years. This installment picks up where the last left off, explaining the most ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. Housing is not a right, it is a commodity The Eviction Lab stands out for ...

Trade remains a hot issue. China throws our country a bone by buying several shiploads of soybeans; the stock market reacts, or over-reacts, to news on the progress, or lack thereof, in U.S.-China ...

But basic economics tells us the most fundamental consequence of a tariff will be higher prices and lower consumption for those goods, as Bank of America Merrill Lynch illustrated in a note to clients ...

It's really amazing to watch Robert Reich struggling with the most basic concepts in economics. Even when he's latched onto something which is actually a good idea, like the universal basic income. He ...

The costs of the COVID-19 crisis come in two primary forms. The first is the direct impact in terms of health and lives lost. The second is the indirect impact that comes from efforts by individuals, ...

Dominic Thomas of New Windsor looked every bit the part of a young businessman, wearing a button-down shirt with a suit vest and tie to Winfield Elementary School Thursday. He and other third graders ...

Boy, people are easily triggered these days! Who would have thought that a columnist writing about basic principles of ECON 101 would cause such a triggered reaction to basic economic logic that an ...

The simplest way to understand economics is that it is a reckoning with unavoidable tradeoffs. If you spend money on something, you may obtain something in return—but you lose the ability to use those ...