When Daniel Cox was growing up in Rochester, N.Y., he spent every Saturday night at Pizza Hut with his father and two brothers. The server… Read More »Pizza Hut, Chili’s, Olive Garden: The Death of the Middle-Class Restaurant
Watching the tariff fallout Investors are bracing for another nerve-racking ride after Thursday’s sell-off vaporized $2.5 trillion from the S&P 500 on fears of trade… Read More »Trump’s Tariffs Drive Another Market Meltdown
Paper checks issued for tax refunds, Social Security payments and other government benefits have been dwindling and will soon be eliminated, potentially affecting hundreds of… Read More »What to Know About Trump’s Order to Phase Out Paper Checks
The Republican Party embarked this week on a haphazard experiment in economic policymaking, wagering that the United States can weather a monumental tax increase in… Read More »Republicans Like to Cut Taxes. With Tariffs, Trump Is Raising Them.
Jaguar Land Rover, the British luxury automaker, said on Saturday that it was pausing shipments to the United States in April, days after President Trump’s… Read More »British Carmaker Jaguar Land Rover Pauses Shipments to U.S.
The nation that the Trump administration slapped with the heftiest tariff this week is a small, rural, landlocked country in southern Africa that is among… Read More »Lesotho, a Small African Nation, Expects a Big Hit From Trump’s Tariffs
‘As a business owner, you don’t make money right away, right?’ Hamid Chaudhry, 53, from Reading, Pa. “I live in Trump country,” Hamid Chaudhry said.… Read More »7 Americans Weigh In on Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs
Believe the hype: Epic Universe, the first major new theme park to open in Central Florida in 26 years, lives up to its name and… Read More »A Sneak Peek Inside Universal’s New Epic Universe Theme Park in Orlando
It was much worse than expected. President Trump’s attempt to reverse the rules of global trade through sweeping tariffs against dozens of nations, including major… Read More »A Tariffs Cheat Sheet – The New York Times
The nation that the Trump administration slapped with the heftiest tariff this week is a small, rural, landlocked country in southern Africa that is among… Read More »Lesotho, a Small African Nation, Expects a Big Hit From Trump’s Tariffs
The notion that the Federal Reserve will rush in to rescue investors in a crisis has comforted investors for decades. But in the big market… Read More »The Fed Isn’t Rushing to Save the Markets This Time
The European Union, taken as a whole, is America’s biggest trading partner. That makes President Trump’s fresh tariffs especially painful for the 27-nation bloc —… Read More »Europe Has Economic Power. Can It Use It Against Trump’s Tariffs?
I went to Costco on a tariff run, and did not stock up on anything. It was tempting. Mark Cuban was on social media telling… Read More »Tempted by Trump’s Tariffs to Panic-Buy? Don’t.
The Japanese video game company Nintendo said on Friday that it would delay preorders for its new console, the Switch 2, in the United States… Read More »Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Preorders, Citing Trump’s Tariffs
For years, countries like Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand have worked to turn themselves into alternatives to China for factories making the bags, electronics, shoes and… Read More »Trump Took a Wrecking Ball to Southeast Asia’s Role as an Alternative to China
Bostonians like to brag about their celebrities with big personalities — David Ortiz, Mindy Kaling, Mark Wahlberg, to name a few. And then there’s Eliot… Read More »New England’s King of Couches Relinquishes His Crown
Of all the countries that expected to be immune to President Trump’s tariffs, Switzerland was at the top of the list. The tiny Alpine nation,… Read More »Swiss Indignant to Make the Top 10 of Trump’s Tariffs List
The U.S. agricultural industry is bracing for the potential of tens of billions of dollars in losses after China on Friday announced a 34 percent… Read More »U.S. Farmers Brace for Losses in New Trade War With China
More than 500 law firms on Friday threw their support behind some of their embattled peers, declaring that President Trump’s recent crackdown on the law… Read More »More Than 500 Law Firms Back Perkins Coie in Fight With Trump
At 11 a.m. on Friday, the S&P 500 was down about 4 percent, on top of a nearly 5 percent drop the day before. On… Read More »As Markets Plunge Over Trump Tariffs, All Is Calm on Fox News
Some Republican senators on Capitol Hill, including one of President Trump’s most ardent supporters, have signaled their uneasiness to the sweeping global tariffs that the… Read More »Ted Cruz and Other Senate Republicans Question Trump’s Tariffs
Investors around the globe this week sent President Trump a clear message about his new tariff policy, announced triumphantly as a remaking of the economic… Read More »Stocks Tumble as Investors Balk at Tariff Plan
Republicans in Congress cannot use an obscure legislative maneuver to stop California’s ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, the Senate parliamentarian… Read More »Republican Plan to Kill California’s E.V. Policies Hits Senate Snag
Many oil and gas executives thought they had hit pay dirt with President Trump’s election. A Trump administration would be staffed by people sympathetic to… Read More »‘Wait, Baby, Wait’: Slumping Oil Prices Reflect Economic Worries
Two days after President Trump announced his expansive global tariffs, the United States confronted wide-ranging blowback, with China retaliating against American goods and markets falling… Read More »Trump Is Defiant as Tariff Moves Roil Markets a Second Day
Sizing up what President Trump’s new tariffs mean for India was a puzzle from the start for even the country’s top trade economists. Its politicians,… Read More »Trump Calls India a Friend, but Is Trying to Block Its Imports
U.S. employers accelerated hiring in March, a surprising show of strength that analysts warned might be the high-water mark for the labor market as the… Read More »U.S. Employers Added 228,000 Jobs in March, but Outlook Is Clouded
Follow live updates on today’s jobs report and the global market turmoil from Trump’s tariffs. Volkswagen, the German automaker, has told its car dealers that… Read More »After Trump Tariffs, Volkswagen to Add ‘Import Fees’ to Cars Sold in U.S.
Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, warned that President Trump’s tariffs risk stoking even higher inflation and slower growth than initially expected, as… Read More »Powell Warns Trump’s Tariffs Risk Stoking Even Higher Inflation and Slower Growth
