Economics

"This emergency bill should not create a federal, one-size-fits-all, permanent leave mandate on employers," read the Thursday letter.

"Someone needs to tell the Democrats in Congress that CoronaVirus doesn't care what party you are in," Trump wrote. "We need to protect ALL Americans!"

The Capital Economics global economist said that if the coronavirus situation worsens then corporate debt issues could reach a "tipping-point."

Imports to Korea from China have had the biggest fall since the Asia financial crisis in 1999, with China's GDP set to plummet this year.

"These alarmists always demand the same thing: absolute power to dominate, transform and control every aspect of our lives," the president said.

Economics professor Greg Mankiw, who was the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush, said he has enrolled as an Independent.

"There's a fair number of people in the nation who look at things like the record low unemployment rate" and other positive indicators and "feel as if the boasting of those things is not consistent with their experience," Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst at Bankrate, told Newsweek.

Here's to you, Professors Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer. Congratulations! Now tell me whether we should increase or decrease aid to developing nations. Using very short words, please.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act sharpened the decline in a tax rate paid by America's 400 wealthiest families, a new analysis shows.

"If everyone else is screaming recession, you start to worry it might actually cause one."

It isn't that the doctrine was wrong when Professor Friedman introduced, but rather that the internet has made it obsolete now.

"Facebook has demonstrated through scandal after scandal that it doesn't deserve our trust... We'd be crazy to give them a chance to experiment with people's bank accounts," Sherrod Brown said.

China announced this week that its quarterly economic growth had dipped to the lowest level since 1992.

Since humans invented money, we can reinvent it. Money 3.0 could help us build the kind of society we want.

"Secretary Mnuchin has allowed Trump's racism and misogyny to prevent him from carrying out the will of the people," she said.

"Bannon is addicted to the rhetoric of general war on China," the Global Times newspaper said.

Fathers becoming more aware of the work and costs of child care could have reduced their desire to have more children, researchers suggest.

"I'm so amused by people who come up to me and say: 'You used to be a Republican and I used to support your views,'" Joe Scarborough said. "I say: 'Well, my views haven't changed."

Trump wants to install "people that will do exactly what he tells them to do," Oliver said.

Right now some 800,000 government employees aren't collecting paychecks. Nor are hundreds of thousands of government contractors being paid. None of them can buy as much as before.

The buck starts here.

The coins could be worth millions of dollars.

In one brothel in the Colombian border town of Cúcuta, 58 of the 60 women were from neighboring Venezuela.

The "sovereign bolivar" was launched on Monday as a revaluation and renaming of the old bolivar.

A window in a security cabin was damaged, but no injuries were reported in a brazen assault that speaks to the escalating anger over the diplomatic crisis developing between the two NATO allies.

"We've seen your games, and we are challenging you."

Turkey is on the brink of a social breaking point, but its president is still winning elections, experts told Newsweek.

Holding a U.S. hostage and negotiating a weapons deal with Moscow provoked the Trump's wrath—and tariffs. Will the sinking lira and increasing economic pain force the Turkish leader to give in?

As Iranians face economic turmoil, political disappointment and severe drought, people are heading to the streets to make their voices heard—but is the regime itself under threat?

More than 600 million people live in low-elevation coastal areas, less than 30 feet above sea level.