The month-long closure of a crucial waterway for the global energy supply has sparked warnings the world is heading for problems worse than those caused by the 1970s oil crisis. Lars Jensen, a ...

The 1970s oil crisis hit everyone with the gravity of an empty-tank warning light. It ended up stalling the post-war promises of endless highways as well as cheap gasoline. Literally overnight, ...

The tenets of permaculture are attracting a new generation of home gardeners. It's perhaps no surprise, considering the ...

Nearly forty years after Ford told New York to drop dead, the city is still here—but forever changed. Shoppers hustle down 42nd Street in 1975. (Photo by Peter Keegan/Getty Images) On a Tuesday in mid ...

The world is grappling with gravity-defying energy price spikes on everything from gasoline and natural gas to coal. Some fear this may just be the beginning. Current and former energy officials tell ...

The West Asia conflict and disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz are forcing countries to rethink energy security ...

Richard Ravitch, the hero of New York City’s 1970s financial crisis and a former lieutenant governor, has died at age 89. Ravitch, born in Manhattan in 1933, was the grandson of Jewish immigrants from ...

For months, Donald Trump has badgered the US Federal Reserve and its chair, Jerome Powell, to lower interest rates. When the governors of the Fed did so by 0.25 percentage points in mid-September to a ...

Market analyst Ed Yardeni increased the odds of a recession from 15% to 25% by next year's end. Rising oil prices motivated the adjusted outlook, as they could pressure inflation higher. But don't ...

The world faces an energy crisis worse than both 1970s oil shocks combined if the Middle East war drags on. Rocket trails seen in the sky above the Israeli coastal ...