economy

The global economy is getting more competitive. What can the U.S. do to keep up? Read More...

Think our standard of living is always going to increase? Think again. Read more...

If you’re looking to future-proof your job, the best way might be to brush up on your social skills. Researcher David Deming explains. Read More...

Ever wondered why you kept throwing good money after bad at the poker table? Or why people buy cars with super-high interest rates? Richard Thaler, a founding father of behavioral economics, takes us through the "logic" behind bad decisions, and the surprising ways our irrationality changes the entire economy. Read More...

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers gives a candid conversation about why we aren’t funding science the way we need to, what’s wrong with our education system, and how his views on women in tech have changed since those controversial comments ten years ago. Read More...

Clay Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and expert on disruptive innovation, talks to Kara about why he sees the American economy headed in the same direction as Japan. Read More...

What if the economy is surging, but no one realizes it? Read More...

Think you know what caused the economic meltdown?  Nobel Prize-winning economist Bob Shiller talks about the reliance on mathematical models that clouded peoples’ thinking. Read More...

How is the shift from an industrial to an innovation economy affecting you? In "The Rise of the Creative Class," Richard Florida examines how we are inventing new forms of work. Read More...

What if automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence are bearing down on us at a faster rate than we ever anticipated? Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, authors of "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies," say technology is rapidly reshaping our economy. Read more...