ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 205.82 points or -0.73% to 27,821.43 Shanghai decreased 14.39 points or -0.44% to 3,252.20 Hang...

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The Constitution’s Article I, Section 8 specifically lists as a power of Congress – the power “to declare War,” which unquestionably gives the legislature the power to initiate hostilities. The...

Personal income rose 0.5 percent in February, according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (see first chart). Personal income data over the past two years have been sharply...

HBO recently released Icahn: The Restless Billionaire, a documentary about 85-year-old Wall Street legend Carl Icahn. Refreshingly, the documentary does not portray Icahn negatively as one would expect from a...

Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance rose slightly, adding 14,000 for the week ending March 26, coming in at 202,000, just above the prior week’s multidecade low (see first...

People need financial privacy. (Yes, even regular people!) Alas, blockchains are panopticons. The entire history of one’s bitcoins or ether are indelibly etched on the blockchain for all to see....

As divisive as the political climate appears today, many people are likely to say that, yes, people who voted for candidates other than those they voted for made poor choices. People don’t...

In this blog post, Sabine Nooten, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Würzburg, Germany, presents her latest work ‘Ant body size mediates functional performance and species interactions in carrion decomposer...

By Camille BusetteCOVID-19 has changed American life dramatically. Americans were isolated for much of the pandemic. Many contracted COVID-19 and American families lost over 975,000 loved ones. Millions lost their...