Pessimism has become both widespread and persistent. In America consumer sentiment is near its lowest on record. Across ...

The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.” If ...

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...

Voters are headed to the polls on the biggest primary election day of the 2024 cycle with one issue in particular at the top of their minds: the state of the U.S. economy. About one-third of Americans ...

In technical analysis, the concept of "market breadth" refers to the percentage of common stocks that are participating in a given price performance trend expressed in a broad market index. A "breadth ...

Wendy Carlin explains how a new approach to economics education can help address pressing societal problems In the early 2010s, a widespread feeling that economics teaching was failing students ...

The most pressing economic problems of our time require pragmatic remedies closely tailored to context In recent decades, mainstream economics has become closely associated with a particular set of ...

Women prioritize inclusive "we are in this together" policies. Source: Debbie Peterson / heyjasperai Since the business upheavals of the 1980s, when women began to fill more management positions, ...

The National People’s Congress (NPC) is always an important event in the Chinese political calendar, not because it involves genuine debate and discussion of policy, but because it is where the ...