Economy

The long-anticipated rule covers banks both domestic and international with assets above $50 billion.

One especially important lesson concerns how one factor - “outside influence” - works so one-sidedly in the United States.

What is missing, Rahman argues, is any actual consideration of the social value of finance in general and financial innovation in particular.

Thomas Friedman is loose in Silicon Valley, the economic hub best known for colluding to rip off its workers.

The credit card business is now the banking industry's biggest cash cow, and it's largely due to lucrative hidden fees.

In Argentina, we're seeing a mini-revival of what the economists Rudi Dornbusch and Sebastian Edwards long ago called “macroeconomic populism.”

By agreeing to the terms and conditions for the Bank of America smartphone application, you give the company the permission to turn on your camera and microphone without telling …

President Obama signed an executive order on Wednesday raising the minimum wage for some federally contracted workers to $10.10.

Global trends towards a strengthening of legal rights over land for local and indigenous communities appear to have slowed significantly in recent years.

One of the odd things about the United States has long been the immense range of people who consider themselves to be middle class - and are deluding themselves.