Many years ago a prospector needing water came across an old rundown shack. Near it was a well with an old-fashioned pump. Attached to the pump was a tin can with a note inside that said, “This pump ...

President Trump has somewhat inexplicably claimed to have invented the phrase “priming the pump.” In an interview with the Economist published Thursday, Trump took credit for the common saying while ...

What better time to "prime the pump" than the beginning of a new year. It's a time of refreshed ambitions, renewed resolutions and the reassurance of a better tomorrow. Before the advent of the public ...

Donald Trump confounded The Economist when he claimed during an interview with the magazine that he came up with the phrase "priming the pump" — a popular economic metaphor that predates his birth.