The K-shaped economy has been a growing problem for decades, made worse by the loss of guaranteed worker pensions, the rise of the gig economy, increasing health-care inflation, the high cost of ...

The “K-shaped economy” describes how wealthy Americans enjoy rising incomes and wealth while lower-income households struggle ...

Government. The Big G. Sometimes we talk about the free market and the invisible hand as being independent from political influence. But since the birth of economics the two have been interwoven.

Mr. Barro is a Times contributing Opinion writer. Mr. Mankiw is an economics professor at Harvard. Ms. Stevenson is an economics professor at the University of Michigan. Josh Barro, a contributing ...

Shutting down the government to extract policy outcomes you can't otherwise make happen is indefensible. Both parties should ...

Political partisanship has become so persistent in sentiment surveys that some economists say it’s getting harder to accurately measure moods of consumers.

Wall Street is bullish on 2026, with many calls seeing a re-accelerating economy. Why it matters: The economic vibes don't feel great, but the data has yet to indicate a sharp slowdown. With several ...

In recent weeks, Western audiences encountered two starkly different portraits of China’s economic model. In his book “Breakneck,” tech analyst Dan Wang argues that China is an “engineering state” ...