Self-interest describes actions that are intended to result in personal gain. It comes with both pros and cons.

In a winner-takes-all market, top competitors gain most rewards, widening wealth gaps as fewer earn significant income. Learn how these markets impact economies.

In an unprecedented one-two punch against a big American firm, Mr Trump said he would immediately ban all American federal ...

The potential problem for Trump and his administration with that argument: Many economists — and financial markets so far — don’t see the U.S. teetering on any such precipice. That means his latest ...

Rep. Gary Click's HB 693 would write 'parental alienation' into Ohio law — a term experts say has a documented history of being used to strip custody from domestic abuse survivors and silence children ...

On “The Final 5,” Republican strategist Katie Frost weighed in on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s recent comments and warned that her resignation left her district without representation and a messy ...

A nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, will on March 17 and 18 examine the correctness of an expansive definition of “industry” laid down nearly five ...

Born of student disquiet after the 2008 crash, the group says it is reshaping economists’ education As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of ...

The collective decisions we make today will determine how AI affects productivity growth, income inequality, and industrial concentration Economists have a poor track record of predicting the future.

DEAR ABBY: My husband, “Dan,” and I are separated. Our children are ages 20 and 22. Dan has just been diagnosed with some type of serious medical issue (likely life-threatening). He has shared the ...

There are downsides to insulting and threatening friends and acting like a Mafia don slapping around his goons. You risk turning them against you, for one thing. But if those friends have been ...