Positive economics is a fact-based analysis of what is occurring in an economy, without making prescriptions of what should or should not be happening.

As social media becomes the core domain of information interaction in the era of big data, the emotional information contained in the vast amount of user-generated content provides an unprecedented ...

Discover how economic principles like moral hazard and game theory can apply to marriage, enhancing relationship strength and success.

There is a reason why economic freedom also results in a better life for all, and Austrian economists know that better than anyone else.

"This is the largest year-over-year percent decrease in collections since February 2025," said Dylan Bainer, principal Economist for Wyoming's Economic Analysis Division, in a news release. Utilities ...

Experts are reaching to divine the president’s approach to global policy and economics, with one theory seeing antecedents in centuries-old dynastic rule. By Patricia Cohen Patricia Cohen is the ...

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the subject. Nicolas Sommet, a social psychologist and research manager at the LIVES ...

After the inauguration of Andrew Jackson, in 1829, thousands of his supporters poured into the White House to celebrate. The crowd overwhelmed the staff and trashed some of the furniture before the ...

This study leverages the unique information dissemination structure of Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting minutes to investigate the data leakage hypothesis in economic text analysis. We ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Economists don’t know economic growth. See New York Times columnist and economist Rebecca Patterson. In “Watch Out, It’s the Jenga Economy,” Patterson expresses worry that “Without income from jobs, ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis said on Friday it was working to update its schedule of economic data releases affected by the recently ended ...