Cardiff Garcia

For decades, the costs of education and health care have climbed far faster than other goods. The Baumol Effect is an oft-overlooked and underappreciated economic theory that explains why.

Lazy. Coddled. Afraid of Adulthood. These adjectives are often used to describe millennials. But are they accurate?

E-commerce set out to change the way we shopped. But increasingly, online stores are opening up physical stores as a way to attract more sales. This new trend is called clicks to bricks.

Amazon is opening new stores — in the real world. And in true Big Tech fashion the experience is meant to emphasize convenience. All you need to do is walk in, grab your stuff, and go.

As the 2020 elections come into focus, candidate ads asking for campaign donations are hard to miss. But does more money mean more votes?

The horn of a rhinoceros can go for more than $100,000 on the black market. For poachers, the rhino is a walking gold mine. Can the plight of rhinos be solved by using capitalism?

Hollywood action stars like Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson are protecting their "toughness" by negotiating to prevent their characters from getting beaten up. They star in a Fast & Furious spinoff.

The U.S. is a big place, nearly 1.9 billion acres. Stacey Vanek Smith and Cardiff Garcia from NPR's daily economics podcast, The Indicator, look at how all that land is divvied up.

New rules in California governing groundwater usage have pushed farmers to experiment with some innovative techniques, including developing micro markets for water.

WeWork has been cropping up in cities all over the world. And now, it's planning to go public. More and more Americans are expected to work from flexible workspaces over the next decade.

In recent years, technology, education and government regulation have helped make the sport of surfing and finance less risky. Both have a lot in common and teach us a lot about risk.

Women have long been an untapped economic resource in Japan. Six years ago Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe decided to change that by introducing a policy of "womenomics."

What one eBay listing can tell us about the bustling market for dinosaur bones.

A report from Glassdoor reveals which industries have the starkest gender pay gaps.

On eBay right now: A baby T-Rex. The price? $2.95 million.

The first few months of 2019 looked troubling. But now we seem to be on the upswing.

The share of people aged 25 to 54 in the labor force has fallen in the past couple of decades. What happened?

A trade war with China—and a hurricane—make peanut farmers miserable. And we look at the World Happiness Report for 2018.

Taxes have been around forever. But the income tax? In the U.S., it's relatively recent.

There's a gap in career earnings between introverts and extroverts.