Two measures that economists most commonly use for inflation-adjusted wages show that wages are higher now than five decades ...

"Having talked until recently about the evils of wage and price controls," Nixon later wrote, "I knew I had opened myself to the charge that I had either betrayed my own principles or concealed my ...

No. Senator Sanders’s data relies on a blip in 1973. Economists show wages are actually higher now than 50 years ago.

The twist of historical irony is that Nixon rolled out his first series of economic control measures, including wage and price freezes, almost 53 years to the day that Harris publicly floated her ...

If it is a binding constraint (below the market wage), then it will tend to result in the usual problems associated with price ceilings and similar price controls, though other policy ...

But this is not reserved to Democrats. Republican President Richard Nixon introduced dramatic measures including wage and price controls, anathema to conservatives, to try to control inflation.

With grocery prices stubbornly high and the packages selling the products reduced – nicknamed “shrinkflation” – there’s a ...

This type of overbearing intervention has never worked as marketed. President Nixon had to lift the wage and price controls two years later. As for me, despite the reassurances we have gotten from ...

Efforts to resist the proposals would mark a continuation of Republican attempts to curtail direct democracy in Missouri as ...

But Missouri Republicans, who control every statewide office and both chambers of ... “Governor-Elect Kehoe believes the free ...

California political analysts say inflation and voter confusion contributed to the failure of propositions to raise the minimum wage and allow stronger rent control. Proposition 33 would have ...