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Justin Lahart

ARTICLES BY JUSTIN LAHART

A sign reading Greenland is not for sale is seen in Nuuk, Greenland, (AFP)

Greenland clash risks undermining America’s place in world economic order

4 min read . 21 Jan 2026

The question now is: Why did it take so long for Summers’s ties to Epstein to wound his highflying career? (Bloomberg)

How Larry Summers’s power delayed the reckoning over his Epstein ties

11 min read . 21 Nov 2025

Tariffs could be adding to the urgency, especially for companies weighing whether and how to pass through the higher costs they are paying for goods on to consumers. (Getty Images via AFP)

Why companies are no longer hanging on to employees

4 min read . 03 Nov 2025

Johnny Simon/WSJ, iStock

AI is juicing the economy. Is it making American workers more productive?

4 min read . 13 Oct 2025

Small businesses, with fewer options for coping with costs such as tariffs, appear especially reluctant to hire. (Bloomberg)

Rate cuts might not cure what ails the job market

5 min read . 29 Sept 2025

The Trump Administration has set a new fee for H-1B visas. (Photo: AFP)

Will the $100,000 visa fee create more US jobs? Economists aren’t so sure

4 min read . 22 Sept 2025

Economists agree that it could indeed benefit some U.S. workers. But they worry that for the bulk of workers it could do just the opposite. (REUTERS)

Will the $100,000 visa fee create more US jobs? Economists aren’t so sure

4 min read . 22 Sept 2025

Economists, investors and politicians have often warned that the US’s growing debt burden would punish future generations.

Wall Street worries as US debt balloons post-tax cuts

10 min read . 04 Jul 2025

The biggest risk to the outlook appears to be the consumer, as spending has slowed. (Bloomberg)

US economy shrugs off trade war and soldiers on

5 min read . 28 Jun 2025

Immigration crackdown impacts US job market, slowing growth in key industries and affecting foreign-born workforce participation. (AFP)

Crackdown on immigration starts to impact job market

5 min read . 11 Jun 2025

MIT economics professor Sendhil Mullainathan. (Tony Luong for WSJ)

Why AI might not take all our jobs—if we act quickly

5 min read . 14 Apr 2025

U.S. manufacturing declined as services rose; tariffs unlikely to fully reverse the trend. (Image: Bloomberg)

How the US lost its place as the world’s manufacturing powerhouse

4 min read . 14 Apr 2025

Recession is often defined as two straight quarters of GDP decline. (Image: AFP)

So what, exactly, is a recession anyway?

3 min read . 13 Apr 2025

Container cranes unload a ship at the Port of Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Bloomberg)

Trump tariffs usher in new era of protectionism

4 min read . 04 Mar 2025

Productivity in the U.S., as measured by how much the average worker gets done in an hour, has been on the rise. (Image: Pixabay)

The American worker is becoming more productive

6 min read . 03 Jan 2025

Daron Acemoglu, left, is skeptical of AI’s potential benefit for the workforce. David Autor, right, is optimistic. New research by Aidan Toner-Rodgers challenges them both.

Will AI help or hurt workers? One 26-year-old found an unexpected answer.

5 min read . 29 Dec 2024

US President-elect Donald Trump. (AP)

Inflation is stuck. Can Trump unstick it?

5 min read . 12 Dec 2024

Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China could raise consumer prices, strain import-reliant industries, and spark retaliatory tariffs.

What Trump’s new tariff threats mean for the US economy

7 min read . 27 Nov 2024

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X. (Reuters)

Musk wants $2 trillion of spending cuts. Here’s why that’s hard.

4 min read . 26 Nov 2024

Trump works behind the counter during a visit to a McDonald's outlet in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, on 20 October. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

How Trump won the economy-is-everything election

7 min read . 07 Nov 2024