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Good luck predicting the economic future; even the experts get it wrong. But HowStuffWorks has seven signs to look for when a recession is ahead.

STANFORD  —  Opinion polls show that Americans are gloomy about the current state of the economy, which 68 per cent rate negatively. Not surprisingly, President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats are focusing on the good news, a low unemployment rate and improved household balance sheets, rather than on the biggest weak spot: inflation.

STANFORD  —  Opinion polls show that Americans are gloomy about the current state of the economy, which 68 per cent rate negatively. Not surprisingly, President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats are focusing on the good news, a low unemployment rate and improved household balance sheets, rather than on the biggest weak spot: inflation.

In How Novelty and Narratives Drive the Stock Market, economist Nicholas Mangee examines how stories influence stock market outcomes

A fresh report lead authored by Nathan Tankus takes on orthodoxy monetary policy ideas and provides Modern Monetary Theory solutions.

Socialism, a socio-economic system of centralized planning, which has been long rejected in our land of liberty, is now tempting many Americans. It is on the lips of pundits and politicians; wealthy and poor; young and old; blacks, whites, and Latinos; people of faith and of no faith—all searching for answers at a time of unprecedented division and uncertainty. Many Americans, especially millennials, blamed the Great Recession of 2008 on the vagaries of free enterprise—notwithstanding that g...

Modern defenses of price controls overlook the example of postwar West Germany.

An article written by YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi, a fellow of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).

Modern defenses of price controls overlook the example of postwar West Germany.

With a single commentary in The Guardian (and an unintended assist from New York Times columnist Paul Krugman), economist Isabella Weber of the University of