Dynamic pricing is an increasingly common phenomenon: You can see it when Uber prices surge during rainy weather, or when you’re booking a flight at the ...

It is so expensive to have a kid in the United States. The U.S. is one of just a handful of countries worldwide with no federal paid parental leave; it offers ...

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Réka Juhász is a professor of economics at the University of British Columbia, and she studies what’s known as industrial policy. That’s the ...

The Department of Defense’s proposed budget for 2024 is $842 billion. That is about 3.5% of the U.S.’s GDP. The military buys everything from pens ...

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Keith King was upset when his marriage ended. His wife had cheated, and his family broke apart. And that’s when he learned about a very old type of ...

There are tons of markets that don’t exist because people just don’t want to allow a market – for whatever reason, people feel icky about putting a ...

It’s Groundhog Day, and the eyes of the nation have turned to a small town in western Pennsylvania. And, just like last year, all anyone can talk about ...