Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has rejected suggestions the president will reorient his policies to support equity prices.

Republicans are trying to pass a bill to cut taxes by $4.5 trillion by reducing government spending by $2 trillion, including ...

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the peak of the dot-com bubble. In retrospect, there were signs that the market’s upward trajectory was unsustainable.

In my 40-plus years in the markets, it’s one of the most regrettable things I’ve seen… Somewhere along the way, there was an ...

Since the late-1980s they’ve mostly been lax. But at some point they’ll constrict and remain tight – and the 40-year bull ...

Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters, Downey asks us to consider how Congress might channel the will of the people to make ...

This sort of speculation has given rise to the idea of a so-called Bessent put in the bond market, a riff on the famous Greenspan put (named after former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan) in which ...

Less formal indicators of a recession, from lipstick sales to diaper rashes, have persisted over decades even if their ...