Mindfulness meditation: It's all the rage. If you've been anywhere, talked to anyone or visited any social media site, you've likely heard about some of the positive effects of mindfulness meditation — how it can help with a wide variety of problems like depression, stress, insomnia, high ...

President Donald Trump did what he had to do. Last week, Trump dropped an economic neutron bomb by declaring tariffs on virtually every country on the planet — tariffs based not on reciprocal tariff rates, but on trade deficits. After an initial stock dump of approximately 10% and then days ...

It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9, to avoid reflecting on how much trouble could have been avoided if economists, instead of talking about countries' trade surpluses and trade deficits, had devised different ...

Did you bet on March Madness? I did, and many of you did, too. Americans bet billions on NCAA tournaments. We also "spent $60 billion at casinos last year (and) about $12 billion on online sports betting," notes economist Jason Sorens in my new video. Sorens published a state-by-state ...

Millions of Americans know the frustration of dealing with the Social Security Administration — endless hold music on the phone, months of waiting for a simple benefit decision, and confusing paperwork. Even before the latest reforms, the SSA's customer service — in an agency delivering ...

In cities big and small all over the country last week, people opposed to the policies of the Trump administration decided to participate in nationally coordinated, so-called Hands Off protests. Wielding signs with slogans like "Stop destroying America," "Hands off our Social Security," "Resist ...