economics

Donald Trump won the backing of the NRA and many gun owners by opposing limits to the Second Amendment's right to bear arms, but his election hasn't been good for the gun business.

Remembering William Bowen, a former president of Princeton University and an important scholar of higher education, who died last week.

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström — professors at Harvard and MIT, respectively — were awarded the prize for their work on understanding and improving contract agreements.

Milk is like oil - it's refined into products that are traded globally. So global events can mean profits or losses for dairy farmers. This year, they're seeing losses, and asking Congress for help.

There's a disconnect between what we're told to eat and what crops the U.S. subsidizes. Many critics blame farm policy for promoting bad eating habits. The reality is a lot more complicated.

The state unemployment rate in Washington and Oregon was falling at a steady pace in recent years. But lately it's stuck. The latest reading from…

Some call it the spreadsheet error heard 'round the world. The 2010 Reinhart-Rogoff paper, Growth in a Time of Debt, was the most authoritative report…