Economy

7 reported A blog post on Marginal Revolution suggests that Marxist concepts dominate literary criticism in English departments, despite Marx’s economic ideas being considered a dead...

9 reported A reader named Clifford Sosin has proposed that artificial intelligence may be bad for corporate profit margins, according to a post on Marginal Revolution....

7 reported A Sunday assorted links post from Marginal Revolution includes references to the Hyman Rickover corpus, a redux of a 2009 essay on poverty and...

5 reported A French billionaire has asked lawmakers to change inheritance laws that require him to leave most of his wealth to his children. Pierre-Edouard Sterin,...

7 reported A new research paper estimates that the 2017 “Buy American, Hire American” (BAHA) executive order, which tightened H-1B visa adjudication, led to a decline...

7 reported A new report from the National Energy Assistance Directors Association projects that average summer electricity bills will be 8.5% higher this year than last,...

7 reported A survey released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that food insecurity in the United States is higher now than during...

7 reported In an interview with NPR, Wall Street Journal chief economics commentator Greg Ip analyzed the recent sharp rise in Treasury bond yields and its...

6 reported According to executives at Costco and Walmart, Americans are changing their gas-buying habits as prices remain elevated. Costco reported record fuel sales between April...

7 reported President Trump has called for a temporary suspension of the federal gasoline tax, a move intended to address voter frustration with rising gasoline prices...