My latest podcast with Martin North at Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) explained why Australia is experiencing its worst ...

In this blog post, I briefly discuss its direct costs, its fairness, the fraud it engenders, and its adverse consequences for work incentives and for the cost and functioning of the health care system ...

Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal, the hosts of the economics podcast “Odd Lots,” walk through how Trump’s tariffs, A.I. and ...

Covering the markets during the Covid pandemic years felt like a crash course on how quickly markets can change. Interest ...

A t the end of every year, somewhere between buying presents and overeating, Americans usually turn charitable. But it seems ...

Like his predecessor, President Trump unsuccessfully tries to convince Americans that their economic pain isn’t real, but ...

For the first half of 2025, the labor market was, in the words of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a “low hire, low fire” environment, with minimal job cut announcements preventing sluggish ...

Pompeu Fabra University has concluded that abortions in Spain fell by around 24% during the two months of strict lockdown due to covid-19 in the spring of 2020. The study, conducted by the researchers ...

The biggest undershoot in UK inflation in at least a year has added to signs of a cooling economy, economists warned on ...

The latest federal jobs report reveals rising unemployment among Black workers, disappearing factory jobs and lopsided growth ...

Over the past five years, food and labor costs for the average restaurant have each risen 35 percent, according to the ...

Britain’s unemployment rate rose to 5.1 per cent in the three months to October – the highest level for nearly five years, ...