The full story is more complicated. Trump is broadly right on the question of how much leverage the need for foreign access to U.S. markets gives him. Only China, because it is a geopolitical rival ...

President Trump’s latest tariff threat has targeted a sector that’s already hobbled.

Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...

The President ruled out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to succeed Jerome Powell but said there are four others on his list.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is not one of them. Two under consideration are Kevin Hassett and Kevin Warsh.

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has narrowed his potential choices for heading the Federal Reserve to four candidates, but that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is no longer in the ...

President Donald Trump’s recent tirades against Federal Reserve officials and statisticians have not gone down well with economist Paul Krugman. Krugman said in his Substack post, published on Tuesday ...

I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was ...

I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was ...

Texas Democrats have prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward, at least for now, with a redrawn ...

Trump has officially ruled out Scott Bessent for the next Fed chair, telling CNBC that Bessent “wants to stay where he is.” ...