A new labour code effective November 21, 2025, requires wages to be at least 50% of an employee's CTC. This change may ...

Greater clarity is needed on the impact on EPF contributions of employees with basic monthly salaries of over Rs 15,000 and ...

Laissez-faire economics promotes minimal government intervention in market activities. Adam Smith's idea of the "invisible hand" suggests markets regulate themselves without government aid. Reagan-era ...

America’s residential real estate market has hit a series of unfortunate new records this year, with the age of the median first-time homebuyer skyrocketing. The typical new homeowner is officially 40 ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies replace older ...

Departing from the stereotype of young women learning to cook and sew, Gen Z rewrites the story of home economics in high school. Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, the student ...

Picture a country where renewables are being rapidly rolled out and electric-vehicle sales are surging, and you will probably have in mind somewhere smug and northern European; a place with tall ...

On August 1, 2025, Governor JB Pritzker approved Senate Bill No. 1289, amending the definition of “home state” as it relates to more than one unaffiliated insured from a group and named as insureds on ...

At Home, the big-box retail chain specializing in home furnishing, will be shuttering dozens of stores after filing for bankruptcy amid mounting debt and several economic headwinds. In June, the ...

Trade policy in the United States has been in flux in recent months. A theoretical analysis of recent increases in U.S. tariffs, including potential retaliatory tariffs by other countries, suggests a ...

Budget surpluses occur when income exceeds expenses in any budget. Economic surplus arises when supply outstrips demand, lowering prices. Producer surplus increases with cost reductions from ...

Economics is famous for being the dismal science. Sadly, recent work highlighting the slowdown in productivity growth stretching back to the 1950s is no exception. But I take a more cheerful view ...