Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

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Austrian economics does not share the same methodology as we see in the economics mainstream. The Austrian emphasis on ...

Economists develop economic models to explain consistently recurring relationships. Their models link one or more economic variables to other economic variables (see “Economic Models,” p. 8). For ...

With every new administration there are hopes on the part of roughly a half of the population and dread on the other. It flips like a coin. A random walk, for the probability fans out there, that ...

The economy may be about the only human creation that works better in practice than in theory. Still, economists are busy churning out theories to explain the behavior of markets and investors.

Three Northwestern schools represented the University at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation this month.

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At the end of his time in office, Barack Obama famously compared the presidency to an ocean liner. "Sometimes the task of government is to make incremental improvements or try to steer the ocean liner ...

When millions of homes and thousands of businesses lose access to electricity, it becomes obvious that energy is critical to the economy. We understandably focus on the crisis at hand. However, there ...