Law professors published a 34-page list of ways people will game the GOP tax plan
The Republican tax bills are turning out to be full of kinks. A group of professors found the worst ones.
Jordan Weissmann
The Republican tax plan wages war on the housing industry
ANALYSIS: The House GOP is looking to make a handful of major changes in their tax bill that could put a dent in home prices.
Here's a soul-crushing example of Trump's utter lack of economic literacy
The full transcript of President Donald Trump's Wall Street Journal interview, which leaked to Politico, is enough to make anyone spiral into despair.
Trump was right — the Senate health care bill really is mean
Both the House and Senate health care bills would cause a generational disaster for lower-income Americans. But McConnell’s plan achieves a special cruelty.
The 6 lines of text that could decimate America's biggest healthcare program
The defining feature of the Senate Republican healthcare bill is that, over the long term, it would absolutely decimate Medicaid.
Donald Trump still has no idea what's in his own health care bill
This week, Republicans leaders are again struggling to pass health care legislation in the House.
A law school is closing. This is a first.
According to an American Bar Association spokesman, no fully accredited law school has ever — ever! — outright shut its doors before.
If you aren't rich by 45, you might as well give up
Life may begin at 40, according to any number of Hallmark cards, but by 45, your chances of ever landing a major raise are pretty much dead.
Trump’s excuse for gutting Wall Street regulations is hilariously flimsy
Trump signed an executive order Friday instructing his administration to start rolling back Dodd-Frank's regulations. Here's why it doesn't make sense.
A major free trade agreement may have been saved by a 4-page document
CETA isn't home free yet — but the major road block seems to be out of the way.
A tiny region of Belgium could bring down a major European trade deal almost a decade in the making
The Walloon Parliament may be about to bring about the collapse of a trade deal between Canada and the European Union that has been in the works for 7 years,
We asked President Obama how to improve the lives of US workers — here's what he said
Barack Obama answered some questions about his administration’s new rule extending paid sick leave to nearly 600,000 workers.
7 million Americans get taxed into poverty every year
The government should not be in the business of taxing workers into poverty.
Now the price of insulin is skyrocketing too
At this point, it’s getting hard to keep track of all the stories of drug companies jacking up the prices of prescription medications to nauseating heights.
Something crazy is happening to Swiss bonds, and it's a sad sign for the world economy
The sovereign-debt markets have devolved into a bizarro world of upside-down expectations.
America's trade deficit wasn't always a jobs killer — but now it is
Interest rates have been stuck near zero ever since the Great Recession as the economy has struggled to fully recover.
Republicans left out the most important part of their plan to kill Obamacare
Paul Ryan debuted the new plan on Wednesday.
Venezuela's economic disintegration hit a sad milestone this week
The country is taking extreme measures to end an electricity crisis.
How one extremely raunchy Prince song led to those 'explicit content' stickers on CDs
It was a song called "Darling Nikki."
Bernie's 'free college tuition' plan would be a gift for rich kids, but that doesn't make it a bad idea
The fact that free college would benefit everyone from Trump to the people who clean his towers might actually be an argument in its favor.