Matson earned his PhD in economics from George Mason University and his research focuses on eighteenth-​century British moral ...

Adam Smith defined how we think about free markets. His guiding principle was, famously, the invisible hand – a mystical ...

President Donald Trump, from left, speaks as Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick listen and Rupert Murdoch listen in ...

President Donald Trump was raked over the coals by the Wall Street Journal editorial board on Monday, over his escalating ...

In a pointed attack on the president’s authority, the Journal accused Trump of trying and failing to “bully everyone into ...

Adam Smith balked at restraints on free trade ‘either by high duties, or by absolute prohibitions’. The return of high ...

Even actions like raising tariffs on exports by an increasingly isolationist economy can quicken the pulse of the global economy. Is local market sentiment affected? Even if the Philippines may have a ...