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Economy

Vox’s coverage of the economy. Analysis of inflation, the housing market, economic booms, recessions, and everything in between.

High interest rates probably aren’t going away anytime soon

By Nicole Narea

Why we keep seeing egg prices spike

By Whizy Kim

Trump’s team keeps promising to increase inflation

By Eric Levitz

Tell the truth about Biden’s economy

By Eric Levitz

Want a 32-hour workweek? Give workers more power.

By Oshan Jarow

How AI could explode the economy

By Dylan Matthews

Uber-style pricing is coming for everything

By Whizy Kim

Biden isn’t advertising America’s record oil boom

By Nicole Narea

Biden’s vs. Trump’s economy, in 8 charts

By Nicole Narea

A utopian strand of economic thought is making a surprising comeback

By Oshan Jarow

The world’s mental health is in rough shape — and not getting any better, a new report finds

By Oshan Jarow

What Biden could do to bring grocery prices down

By Miles Bryan and Noel King

China’s new economic growth plan isn’t really a plan at all

By Nicole Narea

Older Americans are working longer. Some want to; others have to.

By Whizy Kim

A European grocery chain is boycotting high prices. Could it happen in the US?

By Whizy Kim

We can still make a good economy much better

By Oshan Jarow

A booming economy might not save the Biden campaign

By Eric Levitz

Do we really live in an “age of inequality”?

By Dylan Matthews

Trump says a lot of stuff about the economy. What would he actually do?

By Emily Stewart

The Stanley water bottle craze, explained

By Alex Abad-Santos

Are $18 Big Macs the price of falling inequality?

By Eric Levitz

It’s okay to be optimistic about the economy next year

By Emily Stewart

We dined out less this year — but it wasn’t just about the price

By Whizy Kim

So it’s come to this: We might have to worry about the deficit

By Emily Stewart

Black and Latino Americans haven’t experienced the same economy as everyone else

By Christian Paz

Pandemic savings helped keep the economy afloat. What happens when they’re gone?

By Abdallah Fayyad
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Why buying a house in the US is so hard right now

By Adam Freelander

It’s just a tip

By Emily Stewart

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Lant Pritchett wants rich countries to let the people come

By Dylan Matthews

The annoying — and hard to solve — problem of stolen packages

By Whizy Kim

We’ve been fighting poverty all wrong

By Oshan Jarow

Wages are rising. Jobs are plentiful. Nobody’s happy.

By Emily Stewart

The problem isn’t inflation. It’s prices.

By Emily Stewart

Why stop at the four-day workweek?

By Oshan Jarow

What happened to Airbnb?

By Whizy Kim

America’s shoplifting problem, explained by retail workers and thieves

By Emily Stewart

One down, two to go: Autoworkers get a tentative deal with Ford

By Emily Stewart

Going on strike is a risk

By Emily Stewart

Basic income is less radical than you think

By Oshan Jarow

Even for high earners, student loan repayment is crushing

By Whizy Kim

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