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Residents in West Virginia are likely to be saddled with $36 million in losses due to "poor coal economics," the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) warned, and an expert ...

Core durable goods and pending home sales were better than expected in January, causing Whirlpool shares to rally temporarily. While recent economic data has beaten expectations, the long-term ...

Several readers objected to my recent column about economic illiteracy colliding with feelings about today’s booming economy. I was tempted to quote a pithy bumper sticker about the relevance of ...

“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

Expedia's ability to generate significant value for shareholders is questionable due to execution issues and industry features. Expedia's shift towards focusing on higher-value customers may not ...

The UK’s economy shrank by 0.3% in March, with the first quarter of 2023 seeing “sluggish growth” of 0.1%, placing the UK once again towards the bottom of the league table of developed economies. The ...

An economic depression could be looming large and it has me worried. These kinds of economic events lead to a lower standard of living, forcing people to choose between expenses they wouldn't have ...

I spend a lot of time looking through research papers and think-tank notes afflicted with a disease I call “policy lever-itus”. This painful affliction consists of undue regard for big-picture ...