Homebuilder monopolies create housing crunch
Monopolies of homebuilders are contributing to a housing shortage in the US, preventing millions of people from buying a home, says Luis Quintero.
Indigenous peoples still face effects of mass bison slaughter
Indigenous peoples are still feeling the economic shock of the mass slaughter of North American bison in the late 1800s, a new study shows.
Silicon Valley Bank wasn’t uniquely risky
An analysis just after the Silicon Valley Bank failure finds that $2.2 trillion in losses and nervous customers could spark more bank runs.
Maya people shopped at places like today’s supermarkets
To buy and sell obsidian, the Maya people used a market economy with far less oversight from their rulers that previously thought.
Is the digital dollar the future of money?
With the US considering a digital currency, an expert explains how it could help consumers and businesses and concerns the idea raises.
Female market vendors defy economics theory
Women traders were more successful than men in Kurmasi Central Market in Ghana but did not pursue a place in the formal economy. Why?
Could blockchain help track outbreaks like E. coli in spinach?
Are new technologies like blockchain like good ways to trace foods through their supply chain during food contamination outbreaks? New research challenges that idea.
Could blockchain help track outbreaks like E. coli in spinach?
Are new technologies like blockchain like good ways to trace foods through their supply chain during food contamination outbreaks? New research challenges that idea.
Economist: Inflation math can make things seem worse
Focusing on the annual rate of change, rather than month-to-month inflation changes, distorts the economic reality and makes a bad situation look worse, says economist John Horn.
AI offers risk, return goals for big financial portfolios
A new AI program offers specific investment risk and return goals for large-scale portfolios containing hundreds of assets, report researchers.