Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

Q: How many conservative economists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None. If it really needed changing, market forces would have done it by now. They say the best function of economic ...

Ezra Solomon might have been the one to say the only real function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. What drives us crazier about watching this economy is watching the ...

Economics has been described as the "dismal science." It certainly wasn't my favorite subject in school. And it can at times remind us a little of the description someone uncharitably gave to studying ...

Robert Mayhew helpfully dusts off Malthus and recounts his influence up to the present day, explaining why, with his one big idea, he became such an influential figure in European and North American ...