As the global economy moves into 2025, the optimism of a post-pandemic recovery is fading. While 2024 saw central banks easing interest rates and stock markets reaching record highs in the US and Europe, significant challenges loom large. A burgeoning cost ...

Thanksgiving tradition is shifting as families rethink menus, navigate political divides and embrace more takeout, revealing how culture and ideology shape the holiday across America.

Economics is the study of scarcity. People have unlimited wants and needs, but unfortunately, there is a limited supply of goods and services. Economics analyzes the constant cycle of financial disappointments that plague the human race. Using these ...

Plenty of congrats all the way around, as House Republicans defied conventional wisdom last night and passed a 'one big beautiful bill' budget resolution – including, importantly, the Trump tax cuts. Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise ...

The political realignment has come for economics. At least since the days of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes in the last century, the divide in economic thinking roughly corresponded to the political split. In the mainstream, everyone was a ...

Indexed products continue to rack up strong sales. The current climate of economic and political uncertainty is impacting every aspect of the life insurance industry. Insurers are working in an atmosphere influenced by shifting interest rates, inflationary ...

Approximately 11 million unauthorized immigrants currently reside in the United States, according to the Pew Research Center. Republican vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, puts the figure at 25 million. Other estimates fall in between the two.

Her economic policies were obviously thin gruel. Her $25,000 payment to first-time homebuyers would be vacuumed up by sellers, her ban on “price gouging” was directed at notoriously competitive grocery chains, and her call for restoring the pandemic ...

Which of the issues facing today's world are you inspired to tackle? No matter the challenge — climate change, housing scarcity, income inequality and more — the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics major is designed to give you the theoretical and ...