economics

People prefer to live in states that invest in life-easing amenities.

When a country’s educated or entrepreneurial citizens leave all at once, the phenomenon is called “human capital flight” or “brain drain”.

The new charge was announced in a tweet by the city’s mayor.

The sharp drop-off in world trade growth is a major risk in the coming year.

Americans must choose the middle path, away from the fundamentalist positions on both the right and the left, argues a Washington think tank.

Populism: The “overnight” problem 40 years in the making

The Great White North has found a way to provide universal healthcare with more salubrious results and trimmed national costs. Take notes, America.

Mercantilism, the oldest thing in economics, is back in a big way.

These seven presidents had a window into the future—or were really good guessers.

The so-called FAANG companies have lost more than $700 billion in market value since October.

Sure we know it would be bad, but what do all of these scary numbers really mean?

The new offices will be built in New York’s Long Island City and Viriginia’s Arlington.

Could this be the long-awaited solution to economic inequality?

It’s unlikely that there’s anything on the planet that is worth the cost of shipping it back

The company markedly outperformed Wall Street’s expectations in the third quarter of 2018.

The 72-page report makes a case against modern policy proposals like “Medicare for All” and free college tuition.

For more than two years, Andrew Left of Citron Research has been one of the most vocal Tesla skeptics.

The Mega Millions jackpot has soared to a record-setting $1.6 billion after Friday’s drawing yielded no winners. Now, thousands of people are snatching up $2 tickets ahead of Tuesday’s drawing […]

“Expropriation without compensation” is meant to address the nation’s stark inequalities in wealth and land ownership.

A new report warns about the increasing likelihood of international conflicts over water.

The tax coffers for the entire country will be growing rapidly, and citizens of Canada will be able to access what they need.

This is about so much more than Donald Trump. Anand Giridharadas explains why America must reclaim its heritage of revolution before the next presidential election in 2020.

142 more stores to close, but that might be just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

America’s #1 problem? It’s gone from “We the people” to “We the shareholders”. Can capitalism be better than this?

Amazon raised its minimum wage for US workers to $15 per hour. Then, it took a bunch of other benefits away in what’s being called a “stealth tax.”

South Africa is no longer the only place on the continent that has urban wealth clusters

Lions, lightning, and rivers all have one thing in common. We can use the laws of nature to build a regenerative economy and fix rampant inequality.

An economist’s outside-the-box new idea to level the American playing field

Thinking in teams is destroying American life

Trump said USMCA is “the most important trade deal we’ve ever made by far.”