Economy
Vox’s coverage of the economy. Analysis of inflation, the housing market, economic booms, recessions, and everything in between.
Modelo in, Bud Light out.
It might have more to do with the country’s political dysfunction than with its solvency.
Bidenomics, or the real story of a sort of made-up thing.
Is it time to celebrate the economy’s “soft landing” yet?
The Fed is looking to slow but not stop its aggressive approach to inflation.
Almost a year on, the Inflation Reduction Act still doesn’t sit well with the EU.
Poverty contributes to hundreds of thousands of American deaths a year, a recent study finds.
Inflation in Europe and the United Kingdom is prompting a wave of labor action across the continent.
The economy’s winners feel like losers.
The secretary of state’s China trip opens the door for dialogue, but Taiwan is still a major sticking point.
Unions won’t come back without fundamental changes to bargaining.
Let’s not find out what happens to the economy if the US breaches the debt ceiling.
5 questions about the debt ceiling and the looming X-date, answered.
What is the debt ceiling? What happens if the US breaches it? And other questions you were too embarrassed to ask.
From $1,000 sneakers to $450 bakeware, our lust for expensive things has hit new highs.
The administration didn’t get everything right. But there was no realistic way to totally avoid this mess.
The showdown will cause a global crisis — and that has real implications for US influence.
Of the “five families” of the House GOP, one group could determine if the US defaults on its debt.
Failing to raise the debt ceiling would have potentially disastrous economic consequences.
What will the courts do if House Republicans push the United States into a default?
Get used to paying more for less stuff
Why an ex-Biden official is “deeply disappointed” in his Buy American policies.
Will the Fed push the economy into a recession? Some experts worry rates have risen too fast.
The reason we’re stressed about the debt ceiling — again.
If the economy avoids a recession, it will be in spite of the Fed, not because of it.
Our tax system is impenetrable, needlessly complex, and intrusive about our personal lives.
There’s a slight cooling of the labor market but it’s still strong.
Biden’s industrial policy is both a sharp break from neoliberalism and a rediscovery of an old American idea.
Buy now, pay later — and maybe more than you bargained for.
What we know about the bank failure and fallout.
Credit Suisse’s near-failure is stoking uncertainty about whether the banking crisis can be contained.
The necessity of progress.
Employers are finally tearing down the “paper ceiling” in hiring.
Is it really inflation? Or something else?
SVB’s collapse is the price of the Fed’s interest rate gambit.
As Silicon Valley Bank collapses, the right returns to its favorite boogeyman.
After SVB, is the government bailing out the banks again? Yes-ish. But this isn’t 2008.
The new proposed budget would have billionaires and multi-millionaires footing the bill in an attempt to reduce the federal deficit.
Buying a home is more out of reach than ever. But a new investing trend could spell trouble.
The path to a soft landing is narrow, but the consequences of missing it are severe.