Pop quiz: The airline industry is an example of what market structure? If you answered oligopoly — in which an industry is dominated by a few powerful firms — you'd score a point on the capitalism ...

Since our country was founded in 1776, its unique brand of capitalism has evolved over time to become a great engine for change, according to The Wall Street Journal’s editor Emma Tucker as she ...

Business Insider recently launched our Future of Capitalism series to examine shifting attitudes about capitalism, fairness, opportunity, hard work, and success in the US — everything from the federal ...

With the federal government now the largest shareholder of Intel, an ostensibly private company, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wants you to know that “This is not socialism.” But if public ...

Welcome to our regime of political capitalism, where merit matters but political connections matter even more. In an unalloyed capitalist system, money flows to those who offer goods and services of ...

America is dying of loneliness. America is dying of opioid overdoses, guns, isolation, lost jobs, lack of health care, anger, racism, and a bottomless desire to be famous, if only for 15 minutes.

In 2026, America will mark a remarkable convergence of anniversaries. It will be the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, which explained how free people, trading freely, could ...

Introduction -- A commercial republic: 1776-1860 -- The two Americas -- The triumph of capitalism: 1865-1914 -- The age of giants -- The revolt against laissez-faire -- The business of America is ...

The overreaching sentiment of “Wall Street” and Gordon Gekko is coming to a head. Greed is no longer good — if it ever was. Almost every issue facing America today can be linked to corporate greed.

“Americans’ opinions of capitalism were generally steady prior to this year, but the 54 percent who now view it positively is the lowest Gallup has measured to date,” wrote the famed polling service ...