Pessimism has become both widespread and persistent. In America consumer sentiment is near its lowest on record. Across ...

Low-income Americans have missed out on the wealth effects that have benefited the highest earners. The Fed, which has played a role in what economists refer to as the K-shaped economy, can’t easily ...

Voters are headed to the polls on the biggest primary election day of the 2024 cycle with one issue in particular at the top of their minds: the state of the U.S. economy. About one-third of Americans ...

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...

In technical analysis, the concept of "market breadth" refers to the percentage of common stocks that are participating in a given price performance trend expressed in a broad market index. A "breadth ...

The most pressing economic problems of our time require pragmatic remedies closely tailored to context In recent decades, mainstream economics has become closely associated with a particular set of ...

Wendy Carlin explains how a new approach to economics education can help address pressing societal problems In the early 2010s, a widespread feeling that economics teaching was failing students ...

When Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he likely did not consider that the war he was starting would last for years. That war has cost Moscow a lot of men and material ...

The National People’s Congress (NPC) is always an important event in the Chinese political calendar, not because it involves genuine debate and discussion of policy, but because it is where the ...

Women prioritize inclusive "we are in this together" policies. Source: Debbie Peterson / heyjasperai Since the business upheavals of the 1980s, when women began to fill more management positions, ...