Monopoly, Settlers of Catan and blackjack all involve strategy. To win these games, you have to consider how your opponents might play and use that information to inform your own moves. That’s also ...

Getting a “good” job is objectively harder nowadays. You could say some people were just “born at the right time,” like Americans who started their careers in the 1980s. And economists have some ideas ...

This article was written for MEESby A F Alhajji, PhD, Energy Economist and Associate Professor at Ohio Northern University. The author can be reached via email [email protected]. I am writing this ...

The terms debt and deficit are often used together in discussions and publications regarding the nation’s finances, and they are often confused with one another. The term deficit refers to a given ...

At a Christmas Eve Mass last year, Pope Francis explained “the problem of our humanity—the indifference produced by the greedy rush to possess and consume.” He spoke of how “a world ravenous for money ...

In their first chapters, many introductory econ texts list “challenges every economy must face.” “How does the economy adapt to change?” usually is on the list. That question confronts us now as we ...

The St. Paul Public School District’s need to close a projected $100 million deficit for the coming year, discussed in recent weeks, is not unique. Similar situations prevail for school districts ...