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Review of The Myth of America’s Decline: Politics, Economics and a Half Century of False Prophecies, by Josef Joffe (Liveright 2013), 352 pages, ISBN- 978-0871404497 Josef Joffe’s The Myth of ...

So much for the prophecies of Trumponomics doom: Not only did the US economy grow at a 3% rate in the second quarter, the growth was all in the private sector as the government portion shrank.

The sky is falling in has always made good copy. At the dawn of the UK’s National Year of Reading, several voices of doom have begun to promote the “end of civilisation” with an ominous catalogue of ...

THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT: Emmy-winner Rachel Maddow points out that President Trump is bypassing Congress and ignoring court orders in an attempt to neutralize those branches of government ...

Nouriel Roubini has a new word of caution for Wall Street: Traders should temper their bets that the Federal Reserve will ramp up interest-rate cuts to mitigate the effects of President Donald Trump’s ...

The shocking jobs report on Friday wasn’t as bad as it looked and was actually just fine, according to market veteran Ed Yardeni, who cited wage and workweek increases while attributing weak payroll ...

GT: On Thursday, China unveiled major development targets for the 2026-30 period as a government work report was submitted to ...

Given the doomsaying that seems to be an inevitable feature of too many discussions about how Scotland is doing, there was probably ...