Without a plan for what comes next, the United States is not only hastening its own decline but also forcing the world into a ...

Once again, U.S. agriculture faces problems that will only be resolved with a painful shakeout. Debt levels are high. Crop prices are crawling down after historic highs. Interest rates are rising.

Profound change sometimes takes a long time to fully register. The economic and geopolitical consequences of President Donald ...

The global steel industry “is in a dynamic state,” — a Vietnam-era phrase used when much seemed astir, but no one understood exactly what. Two steel-industry issues confront us in the United States.

(Bloomberg Markets) -- It’s the conundrum facing university graduates from India finding it harder to land a position. And it’s the challenge defining the future of scientists in the US and a robotics ...

The economics world has countless people doing fascinating research, and as much as we try at Planet Money, there's a lot of stuff that we don't end up covering. So periodically, we like to do a ...

Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers! But ...

Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of ...

Large investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrencies could lead to the development of bubbles, according to ...