Crypto enthusiasts used to have a catchphrase in response to the doubters: “Have fun staying poor.” Their message: Go ahead, invest in your boring stocks and bonds while we get rich with Bitcoin, ...

The revolution that’s been happening in financial services is right in your pocket: the phone that you pull out when the check arrives after a restaurant dinner with friends. Until relatively recently ...

Talk to almost anyone about the forces at work behind Western politics’ contemporary upheaval, and it will not take long for your conversation to reach the discontents of the working class. In the ...

Our Full-Time MBA Employment Report offers valuable information about internship and full-time job opportunities Booth students secure during their MBA journey up to three months post-MBA. Within the ...

The proliferation of generative artificial intelligence made a suite of potentially transformative tools accessible to workers around the world. Are they using it? Many are, according to research by ...

As catastrophic wildfires, hurricanes, and floods roil the planet, investors are increasingly interested in portfolios to hedge the risks associated with climate change. A research team including ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

When the price of goods and services increases faster than the size of your paycheck, you’ll have less money in your pocket. That’s a main reason workers are so concerned about inflation, even if ...

During the fierce congressional debates that led to the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, advocates and opponents of the proposal agreed on one thing: The once-in-a-generation bill, under the ...

US vice president Kamala Harris took on price gouging as a significant part of her presidential campaign’s economic policy platform, promising if elected to call for “the first-ever federal ban on ...

Drug price caps are meant to bring an array of benefits for patients and healthcare systems—improved access to essential and life-saving medicines, better public health outcomes, and reduced financial ...

To appreciate the edge that artificial intelligence can bring to the financial markets, it’s worth understanding how fast the technological landscape has changed for investors. It has been propelled ...