The omnipotent Invisible Hand of the Market sent out a press release this week stating that it would be seeking out a second job to make ends meet in a slowing economy, which the Hand itself is ...

Readers respond to an editorial about rescuing the economist from being invoked by rightwing free-marketeers Your editorial (11 March) is correct in insisting that the economist and philosopher Adam ...

Picture this: it's the 67th minute of a tense Champions League fixture. Your team has just won a corner kick, the stadium is electric, and without thinking, you reach for your phone. Within seconds, ...

Exactly 250 years ago last week, Adam Smith published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Smith is often thought of as the godfather of economics. And, indeed, he was.

We’ve always had inequality. Go back to feudal Europe — the peasant bound to the lord’s land, the serf who could not leave, the villager whose labor fed a castle he would never enter. The hierarchy ...

Olivia Rodrigo is setting the fashion bar high with her latest beach photos in micro shorts. The singer was recently photographed in various looks for British Vogue, but her fun beachside pose in a ...

Since the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28, 2026, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and igniting a regional war now in its third week - one capital has sat remarkably calm, ...

Earlier this month, Donald Trump described the United States and Israel's ongoing war with Iran as a "little excursion" that he said would finish pretty quickly. "We took a little excursion because we ...