Citigroup estimates the economy would see a $5 trillion boost over the next five years if the U.S. were to tackle key areas of discrimination against African Americans.

Tech giants have to pay a "fair amount" of taxes, a top European official said Saturday, amid an ongoing rift between the U.S. and Europe over levies on companies such as Apple, Alphabet and Amazon.

The former presidential candidate discusses universal basic income, artificial intelligence, and his next job in politics.

The long read: There are more philanthropists than ever before. Each year they give tens of billions to charitable causes. So how come inequality keeps rising?

The federal ban on evictions expired last month. Many states that paused their own proceedings have now allowed them to resume. The result: A record number of people could find themselves without a home during the pandemic.

Trying to replace the government with personal initiative requires an impossible amount of energy.

That’s the amount of buybacks U.S. corporations funneled to shareholders during the past decade—rather than invest in technologies for the common good.

The coronavirus triggered the sharpest economic contraction in modern history in the second quarter as the pandemic hammered the economy, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Hidden bad loans threaten to wipe out bank profits and erode capital bases, especially at China’s small and regional banks that have come under fire for years of undisciplined balance sheet expansion and fraud.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global pandemic as the coronavirus spreads rapidly across the world (WHO 2020). As tumbling stock markets reveal growing fears about the potential economic impact, a number of economists have responded quickly with research-based commentary on the likely damage, the mechanisms of economic contagion and what governments can do about it (Baldwin and Weder di Mauro 2020).

It would be costly, but it may be time for President Trump to shut all nonessential businesses in the United States, to wage full-scale war on coronavirus.

Mitt Romney has joined the chorus of voices calling for all Americans to receive free money directly from the government.

With COVID-19 making its way around the United States, people are emptying stores of toilet paper. Archaeology throws a light on other bouts of odd consumer behavior.

Some companies will never restart

Why do we work? Many of us might give a simple transactional answer to the question: we work in order to make money. For the American psychologist Abraham Maslow (1908-70), and the management thinkers inspired by his theory of motivation, people’s motives for working could not be reduced to a paycheck. Instead, Maslow and his followers argued in management texts and training seminars that people work to fulfil higher psychological needs. People work to become self-actualised and to find meaning – provided that meaning can be found in the mundane realities of working life.

Digging out from the deep hole caused by the coronavirus won’t be quick or easy.

And to make matters worse, we’re testing the wrong people.

The large bulge of Baby Boomers is heading to retirement with little to support them. It's not their fault, and the country will have to bear the burden.

At Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting, Warren Buffett said the supply and demand for office space may change significantly.

As the US economy reopens  amid a deadly pandemic, a dire question looms. Let's weigh the risks—and do the math.