Tariffs tend to increase prices for consumers and provoke retaliation from trading partners. Yet such protectionist taxes remain popular enough with some US voters that President Donald Trump was able ...

Specialized Masters students at Chicago Booth have the opportunity to spend a quarter studying in London’s dynamic business ecosystem through the Global Innovation and Impact: Study Abroad. Designed ...

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In 2017, the Stigler Center embarked on an ambitious project to reinvigorate the discussion of concentration and monopoly in the United States, starting with the conference Is There a Concentration ...

Crypto enthusiasts used to have a catchphrase in response to the doubters: “Have fun staying poor.” Their message: Go ahead, invest in your boring stocks and bonds while we get rich with Bitcoin, ...

During the fierce congressional debates that led to the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, advocates and opponents of the proposal agreed on one thing: The once-in-a-generation bill, under the ...

Back in 2020, New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill wrote about an experiment she conducted for the news site Gizmodo the year before to see how hard it would be to disconnect from Big Tech—Amazon, ...

Since the Great Recession, America’s wealthiest 1 percent have been demonized as fat cats who have grown ever richer while the middle class has stagnated. While protesters have called for the 1 ...

Walk down the aisles of any US convenience store and you could easily feel assailed by rows of similar—yet different—products competing for attention. Bags of Tostitos Scoops! tortilla chips share ...

Today’s inflation is transitory, our central bankers assure us. It will go away on its own. But what if it does not? Central banks will have “the tools” to deal with inflation, they tell us. But just ...

Sometimes it’s easy on an earnings call to spot the metrics that portend good or bad things for a company. Revenues were unexpectedly high. Operating costs have doubled. But what does it mean when a ...

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Hollywood mogul David Geffen enraged many social media users when he posted a photo of his yacht, Rising Sun, on calm waters. “Isolated in the Grenadines ...