CNBC’s “Closing Bell” team discusses the Trump administration's focus on business and whether capitalism, as it currently ...

Why do people, especially college students, continue to praise communism and socialism when we've all seen what happens?

No U.S. president can restore the American Middle Class. Like the Guild Class of Europe's Middle Ages, the American Middle Class, from the very beginning, was built on the principle of free enterprise ...

In recent weeks, I’ve been recommending and forwarding to friends and associates three smart stories that crossed my desk. Each ostensibly offers insightful or timely snapshots of modern American ...

Did the rise of capitalism ever envision the billionaire class? Is capitalism healthy when the gap between the billionaires and the rest of us continues to grow exponentially? Is it healthy when more ...

The phrase "tyranny of the majority" originates with French author Alexis de Tocqueville in his book, "Democracy in America." He cautioned about the dangers of majority voters against minorities in ...

Incrementally since 2008-9, and faster with Trump's tariff war since April 2025, a new mode of capitalism is developing. It ...

May Day 2025 finds capitalism, no matter who’s in charge, drenching the world with the working class’s blood. It’s now 50 years since the end of capitalism’s post-war boom. After decades of declining ...

In 1980, neither China nor India had much representation in the “global middle class” — people who neither belong to the bottom half of the income distribution nor rank among the top 10% worldwide.