Alex Schroeder

Despite ongoing economic and geopolitical tensions, the United States and China get together every few months for talks about the mechanics of their economic relationship.

Private equity has had quite a boom over the last couple of decades. Here are some stats: The number of private equity firms has grown from just 24 in 1980 to 17,000 in the U.S. alone today.

Stocks are increasingly an important source of household wealth. Thanks to the booming stock market, U.S. household wealth surged to a record high

It's been an exciting 24 hours for the winners of this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences , which included Simon Johnson and Daron

Life is full of trade-offs, and renewed attention to paying back those student loans could take from your ability to save for retirement . However, there's

Earlier this fall, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke at a rally in Georgia and had a message to workers and foreign automakers : “I

Two years ago, we connected with a fledgling company making non-alcoholic mocktails called Little Saints . At the time, we were talking about how the growing booze-free beverages market was really starting to take off.

What makes for a good economic system? How do we fix flaws in the system like inequality?

Don't look now, but the U.S. economy is outperforming all other richer countries — and it has been for a rather long time.

Philadelphia's district attorney sued billionaire Elon Musk over a $1 million-a-day giveaway to registered voters.