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Donald Trump and JD Vance saw a surge in their favorability rating among voters aged 18 to 29 following their victory on Election Day.

The Republican Party has returned to its traditional stance in favor of tariffs and economic nationalism.

Now that the election is safely in the past, we are finally getting some clarity about the economically damaging inflation that crippled Biden’s presidency and swept the legs out from Kamala Harris’s attempt to become the 47 president.

A question we get asked a lot about is how the Federal Reserve is likely to react to President-elect Donald Trump’s tariffs. The short answer is that the Fed is likely to ignore them.

Donald Trump and the Republicans have a mandate for new economic policy.

Donald Trump is not going to try to remove Jerome Powell as the head of the Federal Reserve or control monetary policy from the White House.

The conventional wisdom on Wall Street has long been that a sweep by Republicans in the election would be inflationary. Here’s why that’s probably wrong.

The presidential election was in significant part an economic referendum in which voters chose Trump and his economic policies.

On the eve of the presidential election, Americans still have a dour assessment of the economy and are far more likely to say they trust Donald Trump to manage it than Kamala Harris.

The economy delivered some rough justice to the campaign of Kamala Harris on Friday in the form of the monthly jobs report.

The latest economic data suggests that the Federal Reserve should halt any further rate cuts.

Republicans and independents are becoming much more optimistic about Donald Trump’s odds on election day—and about the direction of the U.S. economy.

Donald Trump is poised to win an historically high percentage of the vote in the Big Apple, according to a new poll from the New York Times/Siena.

Economist Robert J. Gordon’s recent study on economic indicators and electoral outcomes offers a data-driven forecast for the Biden-Harris administration’s reelection chances, and the numbers don’t look promising for the Democrats.

The Kamala Harris campaign was probably feeling a bit of emotional whiplash on Friday morning as the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment barometer released the final results prior to the election.

When it comes to the economy, Harris may have the Nobel laureates in her corner, but Trump’s got the American people.

Donald Trump’s proposal for a 60 percent tariff on all Chinese imports has elicited cries of anguish from all the usual suspects. Fortunately, their gloom and doom have little basis in economics.

A poll released this week by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research suggests that Kamala Harris has closed the gap on the key issue of the economy. But is the poll accurate?

The Biden campaign and the Harris campaign believed that sentiment around the economy would improve this year, depriving Trump of his best issue.

While the media has focused on Trump’s colorful claims about his love for tariffs, few have noticed the bold innovation behind his trade strategy, which amounts to a revolution in thinking about trade that completely upends the core arguments against tariffs.

Trump’s vision for tariffs—far from the straw man of “protectionism” that critics love to decry—is something new, bold, and based on a strategy that undercuts the standard arguments against tariffs.

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) was widely criticized last month when he complained about the price of eggs approaching four dollars.

After the Fed’s surprise 50-basis-point cut in September, the burning question now is whether the central bank overplayed its hand.

The Federal Reserve’s 50-basis-point rate cut in September wasn’t just premature—it was driven by political pressures.

Was there an October surprise in the just-released September jobs numbers? Only if you’re surprised by what’s been happening for decades.

In the fevered imaginations of Trump’s policies, tariffs threaten bring global trade to its knees, provoke retaliatory measures, and hit consumers with higher prices. The ghost of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 looms large, ready to serve as the ultimate cautionary tale.

There really should not be much controversy over the idea that a surge in immigration puts upward pressure on home prices.

The longshoremen strike that began Tuesday is at its heart a labor protest against the disastrous inflation brought on by the reckless Biden-Harris economic policies.

A second Trump presidency is likely to unleash an explosion of economic growth that could surprise financial markets and officials at the Federal Reserve.

Vice President Kamala Harris attempted to transition her public image from a leftwing progressive to a pragmatic, pro-business candidate this week, deploying a barrage of falsehoods and misleading statements but very little policy detail in a speech at the Economic Club of Pittsburgh.

Four years ago, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took control of the White House by campaigning on lies about the state of the economy under Donald Trump.

One of the least discussed but most obvious realities of modern trade is that Donald Trump is, in his rough-hewn way, mostly right about tariffs, while the accepted wisdom mouthed by the media, think tanks, and economists for public consumption is, if not wrong, at least incomplete.

Kamala Harris has re-energized Democratic hopes to win the White House and is gaining ground on economic issues that were Donald Trump’s biggest advantage earlier this year.

Fed officials now think it will take a higher rate to sustainably achieve two percent inflation.

We have discovered something that the supporters of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump agree on: the Federal Reserve’s half-point interest rate cut this week was a political gift to Harris.

The Federal Reserve’s decision on Wednesday to begin lowering interest rates raises the question of how fast rates should be expected to decline.