Every cloud has a silver lining and while the avian flu epidemic hurts virtually all consumers and many producers, it has teachers of introductory economics positively chortling in delight. Examples ...

Regulating the derivatives market will build up confidence in the economy. Raise your hand if you know exactly what an over-the-counter derivative is. Anybody? Didn’t think so. But don’t feel bad. The ...

Me: “Mr. President, can you tell me that you know nothing of economics without telling me that you know nothing of economics?” Joe Biden: “Happy to oblige: Corporate greed is the cause of inflation.” ...

The Three Lions prioritize stability: A football economics lesson sparked by a 2-0 match.

Chuck E. Cheese has gone bankrupt. It turns out it’s tough to convince busloads of families to have some fun eating lousy pizza at an arcade in the midst of a pandemic. But this tale has an ...

While I quit the field of economics many years ago to be a software entrepreneur—a decision I never regret, I like to think I still use my economics knowledge, math, and decision making logic every ...

This is a simple lesson in free-market economics, provided courtesy of the harsh winter weather of recent days in the eastern half of the U.S. Coincidentally, the annual meetings of the American ...

Editors' note: This story has been updated to clarify Apollo CEO Leon Black's stock holdings. The company had declined to comment for this story before publication. When Apollo Global Management ...

Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly, by John Quiggin, Princeton University Press, 408 pages, $29.95 On the radio and in his writings for The Nation, ...