Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV waves as he leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Dec.17, 2025.

Regarding David Henderson’s “This Year’s Nobel Economist Makes Sense of Irrationality” (op-ed, Oct. 10): I find it fascinating that the Nobel committee and a majority of modern economists are so ...

On Jan. 6, 2021, a mob of United States citizens from across the country stormed the Capitol building in Washington D.C. while Congress was in session certifying the outcome of the presidential ...

Adam Smith first coined the term "The Invisible Hand" in his important book "The Wealth of Nations." With this term he was trying to capture the idea that the marketplace would be self-regulating. The ...

People who graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1990s all have a variation of the same story: they know someone or they were that someone who quit a job at Dell Computer in ...

Sometimes the best investment books aren't even about investing. Dan Ariely's phenomenal new book, The Upside of Irrationality, is a perfect example. In the same fascinating style of his previous best ...

Writing a Comment for this week’s magazine about the S.E.C.’s lawsuit against Goldman Sachs got me thinking again about the underlying reasons for the subprime crisis. Was it primarily driven by Wall ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV insisted Thursday that peace was not only possible but necessary, as he blasted the “irrationality” of nuclear deterrence and the weaponization of faith in modern ...