When we talk about inflation, the conversation usually centers on periods (like now) when inflation is especially high.

The Reverse Tourist Gaze Researchers at Northeastern University have a phrase for what has been flooding social media this ...

Over the weekend, I was talking with a family friend who was moving some money around. I asked what he planned to do with the cash left over. I was hoping his answer wasn’t put it in a low interest ...

As I sat down to start my work week, I realized that I didn’t eat a single hot dog over the holiday weekend to celebrate the 250th birthday of America. Instead, I sat at Otto’s Pub and Brewery in ...

Today we continue reviewing Ray Dalio’s latest book, How Countries Go Broke. If, like me, you fear that you may soon live in such a country, Ray’s work reads like a guidebook to the future. But in ...

Anyone else ready for the election to be over? This uncertainty is exhausting, no matter how you want it to end. But sadly, it won’t really end. We will just transition to a different uncertainty over ...

Weather forecasters tell us what kind of weather we should expect. They can be wrong, but their short-term outlooks are generally reliable. The old joke that economists exist to make weathermen look ...

Financial market news has seemingly become all tariffs, all the time. The president’s plan, whatever it is, seems to spring from his belief that trade deficits are bad and must be eliminated. Tariffs ...

If you’re tuning in to see what I think of the latest Iran fireworks, you may be disappointed. My opinion is as accurate as market reactions have been. Which, given wild swings both ways, suggests no ...

In the summer of 1944, with the war in Europe not yet won, the United States convened 44 nations at a resort hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, and wrote the rules of the postwar world. The dollar ...