Greg Rosalsky

The IMF finds companies are getting increasingly powerful. Here's why that's bad for consumers and for the whole economy.

A national movement to ban plastic bags is gaining steam, but these restrictions may actually hurt the environment more than help it.

Companies are increasingly using algorithms to set their prices, but is that giving them too much power over consumers?

Rent control is returning to some communities. But evidence suggests there are better ways to keep low-income people housed.

Recent studies suggest we're not witnessing the dawn of a new gig economy. What accounts for the resilience of traditional employment?

The renowned economist and former Obama adviser Alan Krueger died this past weekend. We look at his enormous legacy.

It's Match Week, when med students apply for residencies. An economist argues this residency system is a key reason why U.S. doctors are paid around twice much as doctors in other rich nations.

Oregon just passed a rent control law. Economists have seen this movie before—and they are not eager to see the sequel.

Elizabeth Warren has proposed a wealth tax. It's an idea that's been tried in Europe. We look at why it failed there and its prospects in the U.S.

Senator Elizabeth Warren proposes a new kind of U.S. tax policy: a wealth tax. But the policy faces serious hurdles, including lessons from a failed experiment in Europe and a constitutional challenge

Spoiler Alert: An economist has evidence that we're in a golden age of cinema.

In the wake of the Great Recession, the U.S. fertility rate has dipped to a record low. Why hasn't it recovered with the broader economy?

One of the nation's top economists explores the past and future of work in cities. He finds that opportunities for workers without a college degree are drying up.

At the year's biggest economics conference, gender issues were the main event.

Is Trump's tax cut helping working people?