About a decade ago, the world’s biggest economies agreed to crack down on multinational corporations’ abusive use of tax havens.
Republicans and Democrats are again playing a game of chicken over the U.S. debt ceiling – with the nation’s financial stability at stake.
Small traces of many pathogens, such as viruses we may be infected with, are excreted when we go to the toilet. Ultimately, these agents find their way to municipal wastewater treatment plants where sewage samples can be taken and the levels of these pathogens measured.
- By Xiujian Peng
China’s National Bureau of Statistics has confirmed what researchers such as myself have long suspected – that 2022 was the year China’s population turned down.
- By Joel Lexchin
Drug companies have been making threats for over 50 years every time governments do something that threatens their profits.
- By Owunc Yilmaz
Whether you’re booking a plane ticket at the last minute, hoping to snag seats for a popular concert or looking to go to a lackluster preseason football game, you might encounter what’s known as dynamic pricing.
Employers are increasingly looking for those skills. We analyzed job ads from a global database and found a tenfold increase in the number of jobs with “sustainability” in the title over the last decade, reaching 177,000 in 2021.
The economy keeps making headlines for all the wrong reasons — stories about rising prices, supply shortages and a looming recession have been frequently making the front page these days.
- By Atul K. Shah
some businesses in certain parts of the world operate based on respect for all living beings, not just humans – particularly in countries that adhere to dharmic religions such as Jainism and Hinduism (primarily across the Indian subcontinent, southeast and central Asia).
Gift-givers hoping to splurge this holiday season despite the pinch of high inflation have an easy option: buy now, pay later.
Many school districts across the United States are in the midst of a crisis: a teacher shortage. Part of the problem is due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are other reasons why teachers are leaving their jobs at higher rates than before.
U.S. income inequality grew in 2021 for the first time in a decade, according to data the Census Bureau released in September 2022.
- By Robert Reich
Why do we glorify “self-made” billionaires? Well, being “self-made” is a seductive idea —it suggests that anybody can get to the top if they’re willing to work hard enough. It’s what the American Dream is all about.
As a clinical psychologist, one issue I find alarming, but has barely been discussed, is the possible effect this will have on the mental health
- By Alan Austin
Americans seeking wisdom about the state of their economy will gain little insight from mainstream economics writers. They are like detectives called to investigate an assault. They note boot prints in the garden, the broken living room window and the smell of gunpowder. But they fail to observe the three dead bodies.
The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list.
In simple terms, digital money can be defined as a form of currency that uses computer networks to make payments.
There are certain product changes that businesses can and do make to try to quietly fold increased costs into prices. Here are three to look out for
A new economic model would need to be win/win, far different from the win/lose paradigm under which we’ve been operating.
- By Kate Bayliss
An extremely dry July has led to drought status being declared in many areas, while 3 billion litres of water are lost through leakage every single day.
Forgiving student debt is not a slap at anybody; it's righting a moral wrong inflicted on millions by Reagan and his morbidly rich Republican buddies.
- By Nicholas Li
Inflation is one of the most pressing political and economic issues of the moment, but there are many misconceptions about how inflation is measured, where it comes from and how it impacts the average person.
It’s an odd quirk of history that, on the first day of his ill-fated presidential campaign in March 1968, Robert F Kennedy chose to talk to his audience about the limitations of gross domestic product* (GDP) – the world’s headline indicator of economic progress.