Greg Ip

President Trump spent the past year taking economic stakes in private companies. To start the new year, he’s done that with an entire country. This week the Trump administration said it would control sales of Venezuela’s oil, of which the U.S. will get 30... See more

President Trump held a news conference after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's arrest. Yet one factor appears to have been decisive for President Trump: oil.

The U.S. had countless reasons for wanting regime change in Venezuela. Nicolás Maduro was a hardcore socialist dictator who inflicted untold misery on his own people, allied with American adversaries, allegedly trafficked drugs and flooded the region with... See more

President Trump is down to four finalists for Federal Reserve chair, and the consensus on Wall Street is that White House adviser Kevin Hassett will get the job. As for who should get the job, many on Wall Street say: not Hassett. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jone... See more

President Trump is clearly frustrated by all the talk of an “affordability crisis.” I don’t blame him. As Thursday’s admittedly distorted consumer-price index report showed, inflation simply isn’t behaving badly. But don’t define affordability too narrowl... See more