Since this issue of Faster, Please! also includes a Q&A, I’m going to keep the essay short. That said, the essay hardly unrelated to the Q&A (below) about America’s recent startup boom. New companies ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images/ABC/MSNBC/Zuma Press/Shutterstock Composite: Mark Kelly The best ...

As Athens burns after two years under an International Monetary Fund (IMF) – European Union (EU) adjustment program, one has to hope that Lisbon is paying attention to the Greek drama. Since, in order ...

The US economy has experienced two terrible economic crises in the past decade and a half. The first was the 2008-09 financial crisis, which ushered in the first deep recession in a quarter-century.

Last week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a citywide freeze on rents. The response from economists can be ...

U.S. real personal consumption has held up well in the face of higher interest rates because jobs kept growing. Inflation has receded in virtually every category, although shelter is coming down more ...

Whether making everyday choices in the grocery store, contemplating the cost of college or voting in an election, economic thinking can help us analyze the world around us to make more informed ...

"It's not just about being entertaining," says Dr. Picault. "We want to improve learning outcomes and show how economics applies to the world students already navigate." The paper also argues that ...

In this lesson, students will watch a video from Democracy Now! about the recent Poor People's Campaign march in Washington, D.C. and answer questions about the aims of the movement and the way that ...

In her classic book Atlas Shrugged, Rand used the Greek myth of Atlas holding up the world as a metaphor. The myth is a ...