The Latest Breaking News from Economics

The robotaxi fight just stopped being polite. The debate is no longer about whether autonomy works — the question now is who owns the economics of the future ride-hailing market. And as Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Alphabet Inc‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOG) Waymo, and Uber Technologies Inc (NYSE:UBER) collide, the battlefield is shifting…

House lawmakers released damning correspondence between economist Larry Summers and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Nov. 12, 2025. The exchanges, which were among more than 20,000 newly released public documents, documented how Summers – a former U.S. Treasury secretary and Harvard University president – repeatedly sought Epstein’s…

Capital Economics sketched out a potential scenario where six Fed policymakers vote to keep rates steady while six vote to cut them again.

Irish economist David McWilliams is taking his “History of Money” to America: “You kind of feel the boominess of the place, right?” he told Fortune.

A 26-year-old woman from Austin, Texas, with two degrees in economics and a father who works as a financial advisor, stunned viewers of the “Financial Audit” show when she revealed she spends hundreds more than she earns every month, has no real budget, and didn’t understand that a gig platform’s…

The man claims to have gotten an economics degree despite never writing a single word for his essays.

Hedge fund manager Eric Jackson has made an aggressive projection for mortgage finance company, Better Home Finance Holding Co. (NASDAQ:BETR), predicting a multi-thousand-percent move based on its underlying economics and market opportunity.

Grocery shoppers are seeing it again: price tags on eggs, bread, and milk creeping upward after months of relief. These staples shape the cost of nearly every grocery trip, so even small increases hit hard. The reasons behind these changes are more tangled than a simple “inflation” headline. Each product…

Walk into any supermarket and it’s hard to miss the change. The carts are bigger, the aisles wider, and yet the packages on the shelves seem smaller than they used to be. This shift isn’t random—it’s part of a larger pattern shaping how we shop and what we spend. The…