May 13, 2015
Caused by aging baby boomers, expanded criteria and the remnants of the great recession, SSDI entitlement spending is approaching insolvency.
May 7, 2015
As female labor force participation increased since the 1970s, so too has the income inequality that resulted from assortative mating of higher earners.
April 23, 2015
Researchers are exploring how message volume and sentiment analysis in social media like Twitter and Yahoo can be used to predict financial markets.
April 6, 2015
In the U.S. the Federal Reserve tried to introduce metal dollar coins into the money supply but currency demand indicates that people prefer paper.
March 27, 2015
Because he revised his country's inaccurate deficit and received Eurostat approval, Greece's chief statistician might be prosecuted for "breach of faith."
March 19, 2015
One of many examples in Peter Schuck's new book, the Social Security program shows how government can be successful and also why it "fails so often."
February 26, 2015
As the pill, education and employment opportunities changed the value of women as wives, the tradeoffs that relate to being married have also changed.
February 24, 2015
With better school attendance and learning, and then higher work productivity, the positive externalities of childhood vaccination have an economic impact.
February 17, 2015
Average Americans disagree with the economic consensus for many issues according to surveys from the University of Chicago Booth School.
February 13, 2015
As the source of monetary policy, the Federal Reserve has to decide if interest rates should rise when inflation is low but a jobs recovery has begun.
February 12, 2015
GDP problems include that it's not calculated the same way in different countries, its data can be tough to gather, and its components omit important items.
January 27, 2015
Called the American Dream, the income mobility that lifts a child beyond a parent's poverty can depend on a community's characteristics.