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Some good news for the US economy. The Federal deficit shrank for the fourth month in a row. Employment is picking up. The economy is booming. The Fox News team is comfortably convinced that when the

Donald Trump’s policies often appear contradictory, fickle or incoherent. MAGA’s fans have been forced to explain the confusion by saying in effect that, like God, Trump works in mysterious ways. He p

One of the least financially literate people I have ever met was a friend who as a teenager accumulated an unarranged overdraft of £50 on her newly opened bank account. Having been told she must recti

Our job here on the back page is simply to connect the dots and see what picture they form. We cast no judgment on the dots themselves – no matter what blithering idiots put them there. We just try to

paulkrugman.substack.com America’s oligarchs have orchestrated an “unprecedented power grab”, says Paul Krugman. Ever since the Supreme Court’s “Citizens United” ruling, which removed all restrictions

“I never imagined I’d miss being lied to ...