The federal government has spent an enormous amount of money fighting COVID-19. Uncle Sam ran a deficit of $3.1 trillion in fiscal year 2020. Just recently, President Joe Biden signed the American ...

Do you know what ZOMBIE ECONOMICS is? It’s an economic theory that has been proven wrong time and time again but keeps coming back --- as if from the dead. This occurs because economics --- unlike the ...

As the above chart shows, Japan’s run at matching US levels of per capita GDP fell apart 25 years ago. What happened? Economist Noah Smith suggests we are seeing the results of a natural experiment in ...

Washington may not have an interest in economic orthodoxy, but Econ 101 sure has an interest in Washington and its choices. That reality should inform the 2022 decisions of policymakers, as well as ...

Rick Emerson, author of "Zombie Economics," joined us with important information on how to avoid the most frequently-used ploys to trick us out of our hard-earned money. For more financial information ...

Rick Emerson, author of "Zombie Economics," stopped by with his tips for surviving unemployment. You'll find more information about Rick and his book right here. A: Rehearse your interviewing skills.

The financial and economic crisis that pushed the world economy to the brink of collapse in September 2008, and created sustained mass unemployment in the United States and Europe, came as an almost ...

Zombie companies struggle to pay off debt, barely surviving financially. Discover their challenges and potential impacts on the economy and investors.

Westinghouse's AP1000 nuclear plant, shown in this rendering, is Progress Energy's choice for its new Levy County site -- if the plant ever gets the corporate go-ahead. Wake up and good morning. Well, ...

COMPETITION BETWEEN businesses can deliver vast rewards to the winners, as rich lists dotted with spacefaring billionaires attest. The fate of the losers, on the other hand, is a gruesome demise. At ...

ECONOMISTS USING the term “zombie” used to have Japanese companies in mind. Firms that are dead competitively but continue to haunt their living peers proliferated in the decade or so following ...