A new poll offers insight into how Americans view different economic systems, highlighting public consensus and division over the trade-offs, benefits, and disadvantages of each approach.

I believe in free markets and capitalism but am not so naive as to think that the system is perfect. Capitalism produces the ...

Trump is having the government buy stakes directly in companies — and it's going to change the way we all do business and reshape the economy.

President Donald Trump has indicated that his main strategy for the 2026 midterm elections is to call Democrats “socialists” and even “communists” at every turn. And there is evidence that democratic ...

Business Insider spoke to readers in their 20s to 80s about what capitalism means to them and why some of them are rethinking the system.

Republicans used to have more faith in freedom than in bureaucrats.

The basic lesson of capitalism is that when there is demand, there will be supplyThus, it’s an amoral system. Morality must come from the consumer, , argues guest columnist David Thomas.

Our protagonist was experiencing one of capitalism’s most powerful forces. He was in the throes of status death. The modern worker is status-obsessed. Even the bosses of giant companies find time to ...

Opinion: The political debate in the United States over capitalism and socialism is centered on an over-simplified and false ...

A new Wall Street Journal-NORC survey finds that older and conservative people are more optimistic about the country ...

Standard of living, 10 times better than it was 50 years ago around the world." Progressives call capitalism "immoral." ...

Question/Comment: Is this true?: The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system. (Milton Friedman) ...