“The pandemic has created a moment for businesses to take stock and consider more radical reconstructions of the workplace," experts say.

The coronavirus outbreak could trigger a $25tn (£20tn) collapse in the fossil fuel industry by accelerating a terminal decline for the world’s most polluting companies. A study has found that the value of the world’s fossil fuel reserves could fall by two-thirds, sooner than the industry expects, because the Covid-19 crisis has hastened the peak for oil, gas and coal demand.

Stockpickers have always considered long-term trends. It’s time to look at economic inequality. It’s growing, and its economic repercussions could soon hit portfolios.

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.

Business leaders like billionaire Ray Dalio have said capitalism is in crisis. A new survey shows most Americans agree, and they want specific change.

The stakes couldn’t be higher.

Recipients have used the money to apply for better jobs, spend more time with their children, or save for better housing

We should look at individuals—not national averages—as the unit of analysis, and ask: Are wages adequate for full-time workers?

If a pie represented the wealth in the United States, nine pieces, or 90% of the pie, would go to the wealthiest 20% in the country.

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.

The French government is prepared to use all means to support big companies suff...

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

The coronavirus shutdown of 2020 is perhaps the most remarkable interruption to ordinary life in modern history. It has been spoken about as a war. And one is reminded of the stories told of the interruption of normality in 1914 and 1939. But unlike a war, the present moment involves demobilisation not mobilisation. While the hospitals are on full alert, the majority of us are confined to quarters. We are deliberately inducing one of the most severe recessions ever seen. In so doing we are driving another nail into the coffin of one of the great platitudes of the late 20th century: it’s the economy stupid.

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.