Ahem. I'll do my Netflix pricing speech now. Is this thing on? OK here we go: With sincere apologies to the estate of T.S. Eliot, that's exactly how Netflix is raising its subscription prices these ...

When I published a working paper in 1992 at MIT called “The Fog of Commerce: The Failure of Long-Term Oil Market Forecasting,” many thought the lesson was that forecasting the long-term price of oil ...

The oil price collapse is not over yet. It is more likely that the Brent price could fall back into the mid-$50 range than that it will continue to rise toward $70 per barrel. That is because oil ...

Every cloud has a silver lining and, while the avian flu epidemic hurts all consumers and many producers, it has teachers of introductory economics chortling in delight. Examples of real-world ...

Recently, the U.S. Energy Information Administration posted a revealing graph that could be interpreted as suggesting that efforts to prevent high carbon prices in the Regional Greenhouse Gas ...

Donald Trump has long cited his economics degree from the prestigious Wharton School as evidence of his “super genius stuff” skills in business. But if he were a student there right now, he’d get a ...

We will pay 13.1% more this year for Halloween candy than last year, the biggest recorded jump in candy prices. Trick-or-treaters will also likely notice that the chocolate bars they get will be ...