Economics

Los Deliveristas / Worker's Justice Project and Cornell ILR’s Worker Institute released a new report titled, “Essential but Unprotected: App-based Food Couriers in New York City.” The report examines the harsh and unregulated working conditions of app-based delivery workers engaged by digital platforms.

A growing body of research shows the Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI) leads survey-based average rent indexes, including the rent component of the Consumer Price Index, by up to 12 months.

By “rights,” the American founders did not mean government-granted entitlements. Indeed they would have rejected such entitlements as incompatible with true rights. Government can only enforce someone’s phony “right” to welfare, health care, education, or internet access by depriving someone else of their genuine rights: either by seizing their earnings or commandeering their labor.

Egalitarians today invoke “equality” to deny any variation in qualities among individuals, or in the resulting qualitative tendencies among sets of similar individuals. They condemn any acknowledgment of differences in aptitude, ability, character, and accomplishment as an affront to equality. But this is far removed from the kind of equality that the authors of the Declaration of Independence were referring to.

Fact: socialists do not propose to accomplish their objectives by mutual consent.

Critics of free markets point to growing income inequality as evidence that capitalism only benefits the wealthy. But focusing too much on income inequality ...

The Father of Economics placed much more faith in people and markets than in kings and edicts.

Qatar will spend more than $200 billion hosting the 2022 World Cup. What else could they have done instead?

Some people argue that natural disasters and other acts of destruction create wealth and employment as we repair the damage they’ve caused. Professor Dan Ru...

Students learn how the Federal Reserve uses interest rate policies to promote maximum employment and price stability.

Visual insights that go beyond the headlines, from Chartr's newsletter published on Nov 14, 2022. Inflation vs. wages: Inflation is winning.

(The Center Square) — A new $2.1 billion Tennessee Titans stadium with at least $1.26 million in public funding is planned for Nashville. Memphis is asking for at least $350

WASHINGTON (AP) — Price increases moderated in the United States last month in the latest sign that the inflation pressures that have gripped the nation might be easing as the economy slows. Consumer inflation reached 7.7% in October from a year earlier and 0.4% from September, the government said Thursday.

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Celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit in schools and equip students with financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills they can use to win the game of life with standards-aligned resources for grades 6–12. Discover Venture Valley empowers middle and high school students to embrace everyday business skills and become the boss of their own brand using the financial and business basics explored in the Venture Valley game.

Money makes us do things we wish we didn’t, but why is that? Behavioral economists and neuroscientists decode psychological dynamics resulting from 25 million years of human evolution - all so you can make smarter financial decisions.

Daylight Saving Time was intended to improve electricity usage, but those benefits have become suspect. The unintended consequences, however, of such a policy have continued to grow over the years.

For 39 years, we've calculated the prices of the twelve gifts from the classic carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas." The result is the PNC Christmas Price Index®, a unique and whimsical holiday tradition that makes learning about the economy fun.

Prices for typical holiday gifts appear to be rising at a slower pace than overall inflation, but the cost of holiday travel may be quite high.

This interactive activity reinforces students’ comprehension of the linkages between monetary policy and the economy.

Students participate in an activity that demonstrates a key economic idea: The level of competition in an industry is a major determinant of product prices.

Are you Team ONLINE or Team IN LINE? Answer: Online Questions: Where do you plan to do your holiday shopping? Solely online? Solely in-store?

Pretty provocative question, huh? Using this interactive, your students will grapple with this question and learn how residents in other countries contemplate it too.  This interactive takes a step back from talking about money and forces students to think about what they value most when it comes to life. It will also allow them to 1) see what countries match up best with their definition of a better life 2) see how their answers compare with others in the U.S. and 3) have them think about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the U.S.

For 39 years, we've calculated the prices of the twelve gifts from the classic carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas." The result is the PNC Christmas Price Index®, a unique and whimsical holiday tradition that makes learning about the economy fun.

‘One size fits all’ guidance could lead to 20m litres of drinking water being wasted each day in UK, scientists say

Amazon on Wednesday touted record-breaking sales over the five-day shopping period that began Thanksgiving Day and ended on Cyber Monday.