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 ...

Discover four key economic concepts: scarcity, supply and demand, costs and benefits, and incentives. Learn how they affect consumer choices and financial decisions.

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson have been awarded the 2024 Nobel memorial prize in economics for their influential work on how institutions shape economic development. Some would say ...

Is it actually accurate to describe one generation as having “ruined” the economy or is that simply a diversion from the true forces that influence our financial lives? When a 21-year-old recently ...

For Americans, these are tumultuous times. Inequality in income and wealth is at historically high levels. Climate change is accelerating, with the number of billion-dollar weather disasters in the ...

The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.” If ...

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of inequality and its contributing factors in 36 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East-North ...

Zachary Karabell is an author and investor and writes “The Edgy Optimist” on Substack. The “affordability crisis” has become the economic touchstone of the day — widely touted, frequently debated and ...

POSITIVE THINKING can help people who are feeling down. Politicians, too, have long understood that gloomy expectations can become self-fulfilling. In the late 1970s, as America grappled with an ...