A steep and rapid rise in tourism has left behind a wake of economic and environmental damage in cities around the globe. In response, governments have been responding with policies that attempt to limit the number of visitors who come in.

The company has been battling its store owners for years. It seems to have found a new tool: U.S. immigration authorities. By Lauren Etter, Michael Smith.

Al Gore, the former U.S. Vice President and co-founder of Generation Investment Management, continues to ring the alarm that climate change and environmental damage is a global emergency. “This is the biggest challenge we’ve ever faced,” Gore said at the Summit LA18 festival. “Nuclear war is the only one in the same category, and we’ve held that at bay pretty successfully. This is an existential threat to our civilization and potentially our species.”

Economists traditionally dominate policy making in Washington, but they don’t have all the answers. Sociologists have a lot to teach us.

Concerns including a US-China trade war, Federal Reserve interest-rate policy, and a slowdown in global growth led to a wave of heavy selling.

The least-gifted children of high-income parents graduate from college at higher rates than the most-gifted children of low-income parents, and other dispatches from the point where genetics intersects with economics.

Everything from food to oil depends on underpaid and overworked drivers. By Elisabeth Braw. (Sept. 19, 2018)

Americans under the age of 45 have found a novel way to rebel against their elders: They’re staying married. New data show younger couples are approaching relationships very differently from baby boomers, who married young, divorced, remarried and so on.

The good, the bad, and the meh.

The vast so-called cum ex tax scandal which has rocked Germany in the past decade has already cost the country an estimated €30 billion. It was assumed that a change in the law in 2016 definitively outlawed such trades. But as a cross-border and undercover investigation now reveals, the trade is still flourishing and has targeted far more countries and has cost far more than was previously thought, affecting nearly all of the biggest economies in Europe. Is this the heist of the century?

The booming U.S. economy appears to be reducing dependence on federal health insurance for the poor. Medicaid enrollment fell for the first time since 2007, declining by about 0.6 percent in fiscal year 2018, and states don’t expect to see much growth in enrollment next year, according to a new report released Thursday from the Kaiser Family Foundation. States are budgeting for a “minimal” increase of 0.9 percent in 2019, Kaiser said in its annual 50-state survey of Medicaid.

The next time you want to see one of the most significant effects of the global economic downturn, pick up Playboy. A recent study analyzed 20 years of Playmates to figure out how economic conditions

Where the Koch brothers see government tyranny, most Americans see common-sense solutions to basic problems, it turns out. Nick Surgey, Zaid Jilani.

Acknowledging the role of luck is the secular equivalent of religious awakening.

I was surprised to wake up last Saturday morning to the headlines. Not completely shocked, but surprised nonetheless. By Todd Bunker.

After accounting for inflation, pay increases are negligible.

Bank of America has been accused of asking citizenship questions and for proof of residency, then freezing customers’ accounts after failing to properly recognize their current residency status. By Rob Wile.

The latest reading on America’s manufacturing activity has provided yet another piece of evidence that the U.S. economy is firing on all cylinders. In August, economic activity in the U.S. manufacturing sector hit its highest level since May 2004, according to the Institute of Supply Management (ISM). The ISM’s August manufacturing index was 61.3, above the 57.7 economists were expecting, and also above July’s 58.1 reading.

The true story of how the City of London invented offshore banking – and set the rich free

The outrageous price of a U.S. degree is unique in the world.

Those tariffs will rise to 25 percent at the end of the year as Trump escalates a trade conflict with the world's second-largest economy. 

President Trump has promised to revive coal's flagging fortunes. Is it possible?

Dandan Fan’s every move will soon be watched and judged by her government, and she’s happy about that. Social credit will unite Big Brother and big data to coerce more than a billion people. By Matthew Carney.

How the world’s most famous theme park became a distinctly unmagical place to make a living. By Jaeah J. Lee.

New directives betray a mounting anxiety among Chinese leaders that the country could be facing a worsening slump as the trade war with the United States intensifies.

About one-fifth worry they won’t be able to make their next student loan payment, a new survey finds.

Economic growth in Germany hit a six-year high in 2017 and its public finances posted a record surplus, fuelling hopes of another strong showing in 2018 and sharpening a debate about how its next government should manage the windfall.

Henryk Wujec, a  Polish politician and historical member of the Polish labour union Solidarność, met the filming crew and researchers

One of the most influential commentators in the US now recognises that white working-class voters have shifted en masse to the Republicans. By Thomas Frank. (Jan. 10, 2018)

Sure, the United States is growing at a nice clip. But Europe's economy is expanding at an even faster rate. Economic growth in the 19 countries that use the euro currency was 2.5% in 2017, according to official data published Tuesday. Growth in the 28-member European Union also reached 2.5% last year. It's the best period of growth for both groupings since 2007, putting Europe just ahead of the 2.3% expansion posted by the U.S. in 2017.

Bogota residents burned garbage on Tuesday after the local trash collecting system broke down over a dispute between the mayor and the 3,200 trash collectors. Garbage in the Alamos neighborhood…

We should provide a guaranteed income of $500 a month for every working adult who makes less than $50,000, argues Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes

The 2008 financial crisis led to the Great Recession and millions of jobs lost. It took years for America to recover and many citizens still feel the ripple effects. According to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, though, we should be braced for another one. During a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" last week, when Gates was asked if, in the near future, the U.S. will have another crisis similar to the one in 2018, he offered a blunt response: "Yes. It is hard to say when but this is a certainty."

"The fight over the Bank Lobbyist Act isn't over yet." By Jake Johnson.

IHeartMedia Inc filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Thursday as the largest U.S. radio station owner reached an in-principle agreement with creditors to restructure its overwhelming debt load.