Jim Chappelow is an independent consulting economist with over 13 years of experience in economic development, research, teaching, forecasting, and consulting. David Kindness is a Certified Public ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

When Motorola introduced its first mobile phone in 1984, the company hoped for a buying frenzy. But even the best marketers couldn’t have predicted the success of mobile phones. Today, mobile phones ...

Economists say unbiased data is essential for policymaking, and for democracy. President Trump said he ousted the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the numbers produced by her agency were ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writes about the future of payments. It's easy to forget that beneath the surface of every smart algorithm lies a surprisingly old ...

As of the end of June 2025, the most recent reporting period, 117.3 million people had been forced to flee their homes globally due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or ...

ABSTRACT: Singh, Gewali, and Khatiwada proposed a skewness measure for probability distributions called Area Skewness (AS), which has desirable properties but has not been widely applied in practice.

The University of Kentucky men’s basketball team played Mississippi State University at Humphrey Coliseum in Starkville, Mississippi, on Saturday night. The sixth-ranked Wildcats defeated the ...