Tag: economics
Squid Game: the real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired...
Sarah A. Son, University of Sheffield
Squid Game is anything but your typical, saccharine, soft-glow Korean television drama. In...
Microeconomics explains why people can never have enough of what they...
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
Economics is broadly divided into macroeconomics and microeconomics. The big picture, macroeconomics,...
Racial income and wealth gaps are huge – but the Fed...
Paul Wachtel, New York University
Central bankers and economists from around the world are convening remotely for the annual...
Expanding opportunities for women and economic uncertainty are both factors in...
Ann M. Oberhauser, Iowa State University
The decline in population growth in the U.S. from 2010 to 2020 is...
What’s really driving coal power’s demise?
David Drake, University of Colorado Boulder and Jeffrey York, University of Colorado Boulder
The Research Brief is a short...
In Texas, price gouging during disasters is illegal – it is...
Elizabeth Brake, Rice University
In Houston, as millions suffered power and water outages, food shortages and subfreezing temperatures, another...
Economists are more like storytellers than scientists – don’t let the...
Carolin Benack, Duke University
When you listen to an economist, chances are you’ll hear a lot of statistics.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s speech at the...
Why are so many people lighting off fireworks?
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
The number of fireworks being lit off at night is out of control this year.
While people often light off fireworks...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
