Economy

Research from MIT Sloan finds that casual chain restaurants like Applebee’s and Chili’s are the best places to meet and socialize with people from different income classes.

China’s economy is stagnating. A new book from China expert Yasheng Huang mines the past to explain the country’s current economic fall.

Economist and former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi said he expects the war in Ukraine to send inflation higher. Tensions with China aren’t helping.

A new book by MIT Sloan professor Catherine Turco explores how street-level markets are a central, and centrally important, social institution in American life.

As China grapples with fallout from its “zero-Covid” policy, experts are predicting a recovery at a much slower rate than has been seen in the past.

As markets churn, ground your investing decisions with insights on mutual funds, options markets, target date funds, fintech, DeFi, and more.

Nobel Prize winner Robert Merton and other financial luminaries weigh in on target date funds, value stocks, and finding opportunity in crisis.

World events have rattled the real estate market, but some sectors stand to gain. Expert investors detail where the opportunities are.

New research shows that few people spent their economic impact payments in the early days of the pandemic. Those who did spend really needed the money.

New research from MIT Sloan shows that changes to credit conditions affected housing prices during the 2000s housing boom and bust — and they’re still relevant today.