Economics

Studying for exams is rarely fun. You have a load of pressure on you, and you probably feel insecure about...

With more devices connecting to the Internet, more data is collected and shared. Any research being done today relies on...

Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" is a brilliant assemblage of economic facts and...

Freakonomics: a book for unconventional thinkers and practical millenial economist Freakonomics is a book authored by Steven D. Levitt, a...

One of the most common questions among new economics students is whether the study of economics is truly a science....

The government uses a number of different economic measurements to determine the overall health of the economy. One of them...

Anyone who has ever been caught printing counterfeit money knows how serious the Government is about preventing this sort of...

Ever since British economist John Maynard Keynes introduced his economic theories in the 1930s, there has been an ongoing debate...

Politicians from both sides of the aisle frequently speak of the unemployment rate as an important economic indicator. And indeed...

We all know of the existence of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) thanks to the tax returns we file every...

Where politics and economics meet, we often hear terms such as 'Keynesian economics', 'Keynesian theory', and the 'Keynesian model' bandied...

The U.S. monetary system, as with most others, was built on the principle of hard currency. However, the definition of...

Las Vegas was not always the investor-owned entertainment venue it is today. Prior to the 1970s, most of the valuable...

Governments around the world measure economic strength based on the combination of a number of factors. One of the factors...

Are you familiar with how the U.S. income tax system works? Do you understand that it is a progressive system...

The reasons why China has flatter business cycles than the US: 1. A major part of China economy is comprised...

Government and independent economists use a minimum of 12 economic indicators to help them determine how the U.S. economy is...

Whenever an individual buys securities, he or she must consider what is known as face value. Unlike the face value...

The European Central Bank (ECB) is now in the process of implementing its own quantitative easing program modeled after what...

We hear a lot about government debt, also known as the public debt, during election season. However, once the votes...