Economy

Misinterpreted data may be distorting Western predictions about the future of China’s economy.

“There’s a sense of crisis today that we did not have in the 1980’s or 90’s” — economist Tyler Cowen on progress in America.

First drawn in 1935, Hu Line illustrates persistent demographic split – how Beijing deals with it will determine the country’s future.

A new MIT report proposes how humans should prepare for the age of automation and artificial intelligence.

The pandemic has given us an early glimpse at how truly disruptive the fourth industrial revolution may be, and the measures we’ll need to support human dignity.

A bipartisan group of economists, technology and public health experts, and ethicists developed a three-part plan to swiftly and safely reopen the American economy. Could it work?

Central banks face a Herculean task to keep economies right-side up.

Americans consume the most toilet paper in the world but it’s a very wasteful product to manufacture, according to the numbers.

Gig workers suffer from low pay, wage theft, precariousness, dangerous working conditions, and discrimination.

America’s racial wealth disparity is entrenched, with devastating effects. What if we got rid of it?

The fast-food company recently agreed to acquire a tech company whose “speech-to-meaning” technology might soon be interpreting customers’ orders.

‘For decades, all the major economists … they all believed that we would be working less and less’, Rutger Bregman told Davos

A growing middle-class is set to drive the sharing economy in the near future.

The social media company has long been expected to make a move into blockchain.

Baby boomers seem to have had an advantage in nearly every financial metric compared to millennials, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve.

Political pressure works, y’all!

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

American farmers are expected to traverse a rocky financial road in the coming months.

How do you make yourself valuable in an ever-changing economy? You become well-rounded.

Sky-high rent, second jobs, and wealth-worshipping 1% TV shows—journalist Alissa Quart explains how the American dream became a dystopia, and why it’s so hard for middle-class Americans to get by.

“A rising tide lifts all boats,” says Ken Langone, one of the co-founders of Home Depot as he makes his case for capitalism being the being the best economic model.

President Donald Trump veered away from his typical protectionist rhetoric at the World Economic Forum in his remarks on the benefits of global cooperation.

George Bernard Shaw quipped that a rich man ‘does not really care whether his money does good or not, provided he finds his conscience eased and his social status improved by giving it away’. Was he right?

Are you more likely to think everything is going well with your finances if the politics of your country’s leaders align with yours? One new study says yes. 

Everything is cheap and nobody has jobs. Welcome to the future. President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas fills us in on how we got here.

What made the Golden Age of Greece, and Western Civilization, possible? One author says “free trade”. 

A new study suggests always-improving video games are keeping young men without college educations unemployed or out of the workforce entirely.

Bill Gates proposes an ingenious solution to the job losses from the coming automation.

A recent tweet from Donald Trump plummeted the value of Lockheed Martin’s stocks. What implications does this hold about the economic influences of social media? 

Elon Musk shared his thoughts on the future of jobs and the government’s role in a rapidly changing society.