The abandoned transaction between Novant Health (Novant) and Community Hospital System (CHS) for two North Carolina (NC) hospitals received substantial attention from the media, lawyers, and ...

The 2020s, so far, have been one long and often painful lesson in what happens when policymakers tell economists to shut up and go away. From the COVID-19 pandemic through Bidenflation and onto the ...

One beauty of economics — the study of how human beings use scarce resources — is that its basic principles apply to life even if money is not involved. Opportunity cost, externalities, sunk costs, ...

Trump first announced his massive tariffs on “Liberation Day,” which was April 2. This was supposed to be the beginning of the United States rebuilding its manufacturing capacity. Since Liberation Day ...

The ICE shooting of a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis ignites protests in a city targeted by the Trump administration's immigration crackdown ...

Earlier this month, the Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three academics noted for exploring the two most urgent practical questions in their discipline: why do economies grow, and how can we ...

Today we’re all getting smarter about some of the economic and political terms dominating the headlines these days. Terms like “authoritarianism” and “state capitalism” that have been hotly debated ...