By Catherine Rampell  

Is the notoriously litigious Donald Trump afraid of getting sued by .?.?. Donald Trump? If so, the plaintiff could have a pretty strong case. This weekend, Americans learned that Trump reported losses in 1995 so yuge that he may not have paid any federal income taxes for 18 years. The Trump campaign has apparently decided […]

Millennial homeownership rates are way, way down. And believe it or not, that’s probably a good thing. Across all age groups, the U.S. homeownership rate — at 62.9 percent — has now fallen to its lowest level in more than five decades. Among younger Americans only, things look especially paltry. Homeownership rates among Americans under […]

    Still waiting for your elusive but much-deserved raise? At long last, it seems to be just around the corner. And that bodes well not just for millions of regular Americans, but also for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The US economy gets a bad rap these days, despite the fact that it’s doing […]

  Donald Trump supports opening up the libel laws, and defending those he sees as victims of nasty public defamation campaigns. Well, I can suggest at least one libel victim that needs a champion: the US economy. America’s economy gets a bad rap these days, thanks in no small part to Republican politicians’ constant smears […]

Who the hell cares about a trade war? You, dear reader. Or at least you should, despite the bloviations of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Usually, when making reckless threats about the economic furor he’ll unleash upon China, Mexico and other major U.S. trading partners, Donald Trump claims they’ll all cower helplessly in terror in […]

How has the Republican establishment tried, and failed, to take out Donald Trump? Let me count the ways. The GOP’s first line of defense against Trump is usually to claim that his policies would be disastrous. Last week Mitt Romney declared that, “If Donald Trump’s plans were ever implemented, the country would sink into prolonged […]