There's been a lot of talk about trade wars this year. Like the rest of you, whenever we hear the word tariff, we just smile politely and secretly swallow the cyanide pill hidden under our false tooth ...

One of my central propositions in Coming Apart, a book I published in 2012, was that a high-IQ, highly educated new upper class has formed over the last half century. It has a culture of its own that ...

Mississippi Public Broadcasting hosts students from Hancock County High School and Northwest Rankin as they compete in the 2025 Mississippi Quiz Bowl Economics Challenge. Mississippi Quiz Bowl is ...

“What American Teens and Adults Know About Economics,” is available for review online by the National Council on Economic Education. () Boys tend to know more about economics than girls do, a new ...

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Peter Gratton, M.A.P.P., Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex ...

Behavioral economics combines elements of economics and psychology to understand how and why people behave the way they do in the real world. It differs from neoclassical economics, which assumes that ...

Carol M. Kopp edits features on a wide range of subjects for Investopedia, including investing, personal finance, retirement planning, taxes, business management, and career development. Investopedia ...

The economy is so confusing. What are these new tariffs on steel and aluminum? Why does the stock market keep going up? What happened to all my money? And since the current economic adviser to the ...