Sean Ross is a strategic adviser at 1031x.com, Investopedia contributor, and the founder and manager of Free Lances Ltd. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a leading consumer economics subject ...

Michael Logan is an experienced writer, producer, and editorial leader. As a journalist, he has extensively covered business and tech news in the U.S. and Asia. He has produced multimedia content that ...

As I’ve written previously, central bankers received a lot of criticism over the last year or two as the global economy has stubbornly refused to recover from the Great Recession at anywhere near the ...

Microeconomics and macroeconomics are two distinct branches of economics. Microeconomics focuses on individuals and groups, including companies, while macroeconomics looks at the behavior of national ...

Economics merges psychology, politics, law, and business for a global view of decision-making. Microeconomics focuses on individual choices, while macroeconomics examines whole economies.

Economics isn’t just a number’s game. Human irrationality is so intrinsically tied up in the human need to rationalize that financial decisions are often made when our conscious brains are held for ...

When it comes to big questions about the economy, we're still kind of in the dark ages. Why do some economies grow so much faster than others? How long is the next recession going to last? How do we ...

From booms and busts to wealth and poverty, economics helps us to understand the material well-being of society. Its impact can be felt in almost every sphere of daily life, from the pound in your ...