Few episodes in modern economic history carry as much weight as the inflation battle of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and ...

The 2020s, so far, have been one long and often painful lesson in what happens when policymakers tell economists to shut up and go away. From the COVID-19 pandemic through Bidenflation and onto the ...

The abandoned transaction between Novant Health (Novant) and Community Hospital System (CHS) for two North Carolina (NC) hospitals received substantial attention from the media, lawyers, and ...

One beauty of economics — the study of how human beings use scarce resources — is that its basic principles apply to life even if money is not involved. Opportunity cost, externalities, sunk costs, ...

The Heritage Foundation's 2026 Index of Economic Freedom finds nations embracing free markets, like Singapore and Ireland, ...

Trump first announced his massive tariffs on “Liberation Day,” which was April 2. This was supposed to be the beginning of the United States rebuilding its manufacturing capacity. Since Liberation Day ...

Entrepreneurship has taken on a cinematic quality in the digital era. It is depicted through curated images, condensed into motivational slogans, and narrated with a tone of inevitability. Passion, ...

Being the econ nerds that we are here at Planet Money and The Indicator, this Thanksgiving we want to give thanks for economic insights that improved our lives, solved a problem, or just plain ...

The ICE shooting of a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis ignites protests in a city targeted by the Trump administration's immigration crackdown ...

Few books can be said to have withstood the test of time 250 years later, but Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and ...