This week we look at the US PMI results while also reviewing the China PMI data for November. Then we check out the 3rd quarter GDP results for Australia, before wrapping up with a closer look at some ...

Last month, President Trump gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist Arthur Laffer. Laffer was a hotshot young tenured economist at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, developed ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The Laffer curve--a bell curve looking like a "McDonald's arch on its side," as the great Wall Street Journal editor Robert L. Bartley described it--remains the most recognizable economics graph of ...

While a weaker currency makes imports from the rest of the world costlier, it has a silver lining, too. What do data tell us ...

The Lone Ranger's historic flop this weekend was either entirely shocking (it really was historic) or entirely predictable (westerns often disappoint at the box office). But behind every $225 million ...