Throughout his prolific career as a left-wing economist, Anwar Shaikh has kept asking the right questions about the dynamics ...

United wants more people to book its premium seats, so it found a way to make them cheaper — though less flexible.Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images United Airlines is changing how people fly ...

Financial literacy deserves more attention in our schools, but not at the expense of economics, and not as a substitute for it (“Students Prepare for Real World With Personal Finance Classes,” ...

Amid the constant barrage of President Donald Trump’s often-unpopular actions, it can be easy to lose sight of what probably matters most politically: the sputtering economy. It’s been Trump’s and the ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

Two families can both call themselves middle class and may earn similar incomes — but their financial reality is not the same. Trump hit with dire warning of a self-inflicted disaster Warning issued ...

Economic reality comes for us all in the end—yes, even China’s Communist Party. So it is that officials this week reduced their economic growth-target for the coming year to the lowest level since ...

Gov. JB Pritzker has cast his $56 billion fiscal 2027 spending proposal, released last week, as a “maintenance budget.” For a state whose budget has mushroomed under the seven years of Pritzker’s ...

Democrats’ hubris in thinking they can outsmart basic economics is matched only by how reliably economics drags their policies back to reality. To offset these increased costs, the companies chose, ...

Abstract: The class imbalance problem can cause classifiers to be biased toward the majority class and inclined to generate incorrect predictions. While existing studies have proposed numerous ...

Having a middle class family used to be a foundation of The American Dream, a dream of security, access and opportunity. Or, at least, that's what it used to mean. From rising housing costs to the ...

Three new books apply an economist’s lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature itself. By Nick Summers Nick Summers is the former Sunday Business editor at ...