Whatever you make of President Donald Trump’s hands-on approach to publicly traded companies—and whatever you think it should ...

Capitalism is driven by profit. Some of the earliest descriptions of the profit motive that drives the whole system come from Adam Smith. As he wrote in 1776, “It is not from the benevolence of the ...

Capitalism, itself, was built to exploit people, where the wealthiest reap the benefits of the labor of others. But the gap ...

The government's stake in the computer chip maker is not without precedent, but it puts Trump at odds with some conservatives ...

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers expressed skepticism over the US government's decision to take a 10% equity stake in ...

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich warned in a new essay that President Donald Trump’s growing control over the U.S. economy ...

Ian also argues that much of what passes for capitalism in the US is really oligarchy: corporations using lobbying to secure ...

President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.

Trump’s personalized control of growing swaths of the economy will harm American economic freedom and competitiveness.

For decades, Washington has supported free-market capitalism. Today, the government appears to be supporting a new direction – state-directed capitalism, argues ...