Tag: economy
The US already faces a health care workforce shortage – immigration...
Bedassa Tadesse, University of Minnesota Duluth
As Americans gather for holiday celebrations, many will quietly thank the health care...
Has the Fed fixed the economy yet? And other burning economic...
D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State University
The U.S. economy heads into 2026 in...
Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the...
Ray Madoff, Boston College
Ray Madoff, a Boston College law professor, has written a new book: “The Second Estate:...
Why do family companies even exist? They know how to ‘win...
Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy, University of Louisville; Hanqing "Chevy" Fang, Missouri University of Science and Technology, and Jim Chrisman, Mississippi State University
$2B Counter-Strike 2 crash exposes a legal black hole: Your digital...
João Marinotti, Indiana University
In late October 2025, as much as US$2 billion vanished from a digital marketplace. This...
The shutdown has ended – but this economist isn’t rejoicing quite yet
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
After 43 days, the U.S. government shutdown finally came to an end...
The ‘supercenter’ effect: How massive, one-stop retailers fuel overconsumption − and waste
Suvrat Dhanorkar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Imagine walking out of a Walmart, Target or Costco. As you push your...
Singles’ Day is a $150B holiday in China. Here’s why I...
Peter McGraw, University of Colorado Boulder
On Nov. 11 each year, a curious holiday takes over China. What began...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
