President Trump's pick of a political ally, E.J. Antoni, to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics has raised fears among economists about political interference in important economic data. After a guest ...

Sometimes the most important economic events announce themselves with huge front-page headlines, stock market collapses and frantic intervention by government officials. Other times, a hard-to-explain ...

In late February, students at dozens of U.S. high schools participated in the first round of an international competition in economics. The top five American students will travel to historic Olympia, ...

It goes without saying that Olympic athletes need clean air to perform at their best. So for this year’s Winter Games, China pulled the same trick it had unveiled before the Summer Games in 2008: it ...

The Chicago Fed National Activity Index is arguably one of the most important and overlooked economic indicators. The Chicago Fed also provides a breakdown of the change in the underlying 85 ...

While the “Women, Business and the Law” index does not directly answer the question of how to create an equal society, the report points out—in accord with The Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of ...

We should never take economic growth for granted. As Oxford University economist Daniel Susskind writes in his 2024 book, Growth: A History and a Reckoning, “Three facts, simple but remarkable, have ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. ­– Sayanti Mukherjee, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo, knows that converting from fossil fuels to renewable ...