Australian economist Justin Wolfers came down on Congressional stock trading, calling it “absurd” and a “weird flaw” that ...

Wolfers, an Australian known for his research on how happiness relates to income, is one of the more prominent economists ...

Stocks were in free fall again Friday as markets saw their worst week in years. The trade war heated up as China responded to ...

The Trump administration has taken its next steps toward imposing more tariffs on key imports, launching investigations into imports of computer chips, chip making equipment and pharmaceuticals.

Why Trump’s tariff pause has not stopped the risk of global recession - Even with a 90-day halt on aggressive tariff hikes, ...

By the way, tariffs don’t distort just your buying decisions; they also distort what businesses make. Just as tariffs lead ...

Americans will likely look back at the past week as one that was pivotal in shaping the U.S. economy and remaking the world ...

Wolfers: And we’re still in the midst of an incredibly disruptive tariff regime.

Declaring a “national emergency that threatens our security and our very way of life,” President Donald Trump, after markets ...

The markets reacted to Trump's sweeping tariffs historically badly, with one-day losses we haven't seen since the pandemic.

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers teach economics at U. Michigan. They see Trump tariffs driving market chaos, global ...

Is anything still predictable? To help us understand the extraordinary volatility of the past few weeks, we invite Justin Wolfers, economist at the University of Michigan, to speak with us on the ...