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The March jobs report showed the US economy added 303,000 positions and the unemployment rate fell to 3.8%. That far surpasses expectations for 205,000 jobs to be added and underscores the ongoing resilience of the US labor market.

For the past 50 years, the US unemployment rate has mostly been far above 4%, even rocketing to almost 15% during the pandemic. Yet in the turbulent period that followed lockdowns and other economic disruptions from the pandemic, it has stayed below the 4% level for more than two years.

In the latest in a string of statements and actions directed against China, US treasury secretary Janet Yellen issued a warning to it not to flood the world with cheap clean energy products that would distort global markets.

Despite the apparent policy gulf between the two presidential candidates, both harbor nearly identical protectionist instincts. 

On Thursday, March 21, The Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs collaborated with The Steamboat Institute to host a debate between Michael Strain, the director of economic policy

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The former president’s second-term agenda contains few policies that economists believe would reduce the rise in prices.

At the annual Conservative Political Action Coalition meeting, or CPAC, issues like tariffs and government spending are likely on the docket.

Kudos to GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley for saying what virtually no one else in either party is willing to admit these days: Tariffs are taxes that raise costs for

Since 2020, the United States has powered through a once-in-a-century pandemic, the highest inflation in 40 years, and fallout from two wars. Now, after faster annual growth, the US economy is quashing fears of a recession while offering lessons for the future.