Economy

NPR's Korva Coleman speaks with Chris Pratt, operations general manager at Mid Continent Nail Corporation in Missouri about company layoffs as a result of President Trump's tariffs on steel.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Pieter Omtzigt, Brexit rapporteur for the Dutch parliament, about Dutch plans if Britain leaves the EU with little preparation.

How something that's all around us came to be worth millions of dollars.

Can the yield curve predict recession, or is it a dated model? Planet Money explains.

Three worrying indicators to keep an eye on — less complicated than the yield curve, but something you can talk about at the water cooler.

Presidents usually don't comment directly on Fed policy. But President Trump broke with that tradition Thursday, saying, "I'm not thrilled" about the Fed's interest rate increases.

It may be too late to avoid a trade war between the U.S. and China, but there might be a simple way to stop the trade wars of the future.

Few American and Canadian businesses are as tightly linked as Twin Rivers Paper's mills. Its mill in Edmundston, New Brunswick, makes pulp for its paper mill just over the river in Madawaska, Maine.

A long trade war that results in higher, broader tariffs "will be bad for our economy and for other economies too," Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said at a Senate hearing Tuesday.

The agreement will create an open-trade zone for 600 million people. The parties account for approximately one-third of GDP worldwide.