An economic shock, also known as a macroeconomic shock, is any unexpected event that has a large-scale, unexpected impact on the economy. Many, but not all, economists also say that a shock has to be ...

Upper-income Americans are doing better, while low- and moderate-income households are falling behind. Why does that matter?

Caroline Banton has 6+ years of experience as a writer of business and finance articles. She also writes biographies for Story Terrace. Investopedia / Michela Buttignol Economic value is the value ...

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 ...

What explains the Polish economic success story? We can’t necessarily credit our governments, apart from actions taken in the first years of post-Communism transformation. More recent administrations ...

Mixed economies blend free market and socialist elements, balancing efficiency and social welfare. Advantages include efficient resource allocation and innovation-driven profit, as seen with Apple.

Much has been said about why businesses need to run simpler and embrace the Digital Economy. And more times than not, these discussions have been mutually exclusive. In reality, the contrary is true – ...

We've all heard of the "sharing economy": It's a wide-ranging term that, at its core, refers to a market model in which groups share ownership and use of goods or services. And it's a model that has ...

A heretical idea has entered the national discourse: Maybe some other nations handle their economies better than we do. Some nations, after all, are growing like gangbusters. Some nations have ...

The gig economy, as per the UK government, involves the exchange of labor involves the short-term, task-based payment of labor between people or businesses using digital services that actively ...