In the 80 years since World War II came to its official end on Sept. 2, 1945, the number of living World War II veterans has rapidly declined.

President Truman furthered the New Deal with his Fair Deal program that expanded Social Security, backed full-employment legislation, passed Fair Housing and Slum clearance bills; critically, he ...

Economists worry that a loyal Fed that sharply cuts short-term interest rates could result in higher inflation and, over time, higher borrowing costs.

Vietnam marked its National Day with its largest military parade in decades. Thousands packed Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Square, where Ho Chi Minh declared independence in 1945, to watch columns of troops, tanks ...

Under fluttering flags and in a fever of national pride, legions of lock-stepped Vietnamese patriots are due to march through ...

President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve’s governing board has raised alarms among economists and legal experts who see it as the biggest threat to the central bank’s ...

The annual conference of central bankers and others engaged with economics at Jackson Hole, Wyo. Aug. 21-23 has been especially noteworthy.