Following last week‘s air crash in Washington, the FAA is receiving extra scrutiny. The real problem with the FAA, however, ...

Arvind Subramanian believes that neither massive economic reforms nor a favorable global environment, both of which drove India's past high-growth phases, seem likely today.

Optimism…is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.” – Voltaire, Candide You, Governor Polis, ...

Bitcoin is banned in many fascist countries even though it is a radical idea based on a sound economic theory. Many economists from the Austrian School had imagined money that is independent of the ...

That’s why socialist command economies don’t work. All of them run into the economic calculation problem, which is that central planners simply do not have, and have no way to obtain, the information ...

China faces a “toxic combination” of deflation and devaluation which Japan did not experience. It may be a sign of greater ...

Real GDP can also be measured as a dollar or a percentage by calculating changes in real GDP from one period to the next. Real economic growth is used by policymakers to determine growth over ...

But as a consequence of teams attempting to be more savvy when it comes to player evaluation and free agency, baseball now faces a different problem. Today, free agents who are 28, 29 and 30 years ...

China and the U.K. right now have the opposite problem. For China ... directing MarketWatch's economic, political and regulatory coverage. Follow Steve on Twitter: @MKTWgoldstein.

A West Virginia University researcher is working to understand and estimate environmental cleanup costs associated with ...