Tax the rich. Trash the tariffs. End monopolies. These modern rallying calls could have come straight from the pen of the revered 18th-century economist, whose economics classic “The Wealth of Nations ...

Self-interest describes actions that are intended to result in personal gain. It comes with both pros and cons.

OAKLAND – 216 students from 11 area high schools poured into Oakland City University on Friday, February 28, 2026, for the fifth annual OCU ...

Beckley-based Whitecap Waste Holdings LLC, Fly-By-Nite Disposal Service Inc. and Empire Waste Systems Inc. have jointly ...

Guha does stress that he thinks Citrini’s research is interesting as a “thought-provoking example of scenario analysis”, which can be valuable if it spurs people into thinking through a variety of ...

On Liberation Day, President Trump held up what most economists correctly thought was a rather silly reciprocal tariff chart. Armed with that chart and under the cover of the International Emergency ...

In credit markets, interest rate caps lead to rejected applications, lower credit limits, and tighter underwriting for the ...

When New York City’s new minimum-wage rules for grocery delivery workers kicked in last week, they immediately hit us at the checkout. The evidence pops up as soon as you open your Instacart app.

Johan Fourie receives funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa’s Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work. In it, he ...

Being the econ nerds that we are here at Planet Money and The Indicator, this Thanksgiving we want to give thanks for economic insights that improved our lives, solved a problem, or just plain ...