Andrew Beattie was part of the original editorial team at Investopedia and has spent twenty years writing on a diverse range of financial topics including business, investing, personal finance, and ...

Times of crisis are when we must guard our liberties most. The State invariably uses these times to bloat its scope of power, and in the heat of crisis those who dissent are often labeled unpatriotic ...

Gambler’s fallacy is a common cognitive bias that affects decision-making, especially in areas like gambling, investing, and trading. In this article, we’ll strive to break things down by giving you a ...

For that's the only way we can decide whether we should do more or less. Which brings us to today's report: The 2016 Economic Report of the President says that the economy will continue modest, steady ...

“Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.” That, according to Herbert Hoover, was the advice he received from Andrew Mellon, the Treasury secretary, as America ...

In a 2014 letter written by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) to President Obama and congressional leaders in support of an increase in the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, more than 600 ...

The insistence on work and production is a malign one. Giorgio Agamben[1] We are being told that we need still more economic growth in order to overcome the present multi-layer crises. Actually we ...

Robert is a former Senior Research Fellow specializing in Health Economics. After spending decades trying to reduce health care costs, some commentators and policymakers now argue that health care ...