U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to “overhaul” the U.S. approach to trade over the next four years in an effort to usher in a “golden era” for America, with threatened tariffs on Canada, ...

A parallel freeze of all foreign aid created similar chaos. Chart: The Economist In the meantime Mr Trump has launched an extralegal power grab almost as ambitious against the federal bureaucracy ...

A former Federal Reserve economist was arrested Friday and accused of conspiring to pass sensitive information to individuals working for the Chinese government, the Justice Department said. An ...

The WSJ’s latest survey shows that forecasters expect higher inflation than they did in October—but also higher GDP growth.

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Wall Street was poorly represented in the expensive seats behind Donald Trump at his inauguration. That honour fell instead to the leaders of America’s technology industry, who turned up en ...

Mr Trump is more transactional than presidents before him, which increases the risk of cronyism and self-dealing. But America ...

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