Remember the days of Occupy Wall Street? In September of 2011, activists descended on the Wall Street area of Manhattan to protest rising economic inequality and the controlling role that money was ...

Wonder Land: In 2016 they lay down in the street to stop traffic. In 2024 they had cookies and milk. Photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters/Mark Wilson/Getty Images Inflation is remaking America—again. It looms ...

“Neoliberalism” has been called a political swear word, and it gets blamed for pretty much every socioeconomic ill we have, from bank failures and income inequality to the gig economy and demagogic ...

President Donald Trump’s return to the White House set off a slew of “hand-wringing” about the future of the global order. While commentators theorized that Trump, along with other quasi-populists ...

The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. The past few years have seen a widespread move away ...

The promise of neoliberalism was to liberate individuals from state regulation to better enable individuals to succeed in market competition. Firms’ profits would increase, and wealth would trickle ...

In almost every borough, suburb, and city block in America, quality of life is decreasing while cost of living is increasing. A stunning 69 percent of people can’t afford new median priced housing, ...

American politics is experiencing a “new centrism,” according to New York Times columnist David Leonhardt. Market skeptics across the political spectrum are cooperating on issues such as trade and ...

Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she is author of “An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to ...

Once a radical economic idea, neoliberalism came to define everything from free markets to personal freedom. But what began ...

New Mexico’s ‘Free’ Child Care an Attempt to Cover for Past Failures Don’t Cry for Argentina Government grants and tax credits for favored groups would be economic junk food to an already obese state.