D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State University In the fast-paced world of cryptocurrency, vast sums of money can be made or lost in the blink of an eye. In early November 2022, the crypto exchange FTX was…
Jesse Burkhardt, Colorado State University and Lauren Gifford, Colorado State University Each year, the federal government purchases about 50,000 new vehicles. Until recently, almost all of them ran on diesel or gasoline, contributing to U.S. demand for fossil fuels and…
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John Hawkins, University of Canberra Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are in dire straits.…
D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University Federal Reserve officials held interest rates…
Christopher Decker, University of Nebraska Omaha The Federal Reserve is facing a rather sticky problem. Despite its best efforts over the past year, inflation is stubbornly refusing to head south with any…
Vidhura S. Tennekoon, Indiana University Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed with enormous speed – so quickly that they could be textbook cases of classic bank runs, in which too many…
William Chittenden, Texas State University Silicon Valley Bank, which catered to the tech industry for three decades, collapsed on March 10, 2023, after the Santa Clara, California-based lender suffered from an old-fashioned…
Heather McGregor, Heriot-Watt University February 1 was a date to celebrate for women in business everywhere. It happened to be the day that water group Severn Trent became the first large UK…
Arabinda Basistha, West Virginia University The rate at which Americans are saving money has dipped close to an all-time low, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The personal savings rate was…
Amy Froide, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Enron. Bernie Madoff. FTX. In modern capitalism, it seems as if stories of companies and managers who engage in fraud and swindle their investors occur…
Mark Humphery-Jenner, UNSW Sydney “I want to take accountability for these decisions and for how we got here,” tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg told the 11,000 staff he sacked this week. But does…
In recent years, San Francisco has become known as the birthplace of Silicon Valley and the home of some of the world’s most valuable tech companies including the four Tech Giants.…
Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury California’s new fast food law is expected to lead to a higher minimum wage for the industry in the state – as high as US$22 in 2023,…
ManMohan S Sodhi, City, University of London and Christopher S. Tang, University of California, Los Angeles Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan has elicited a strong response from China: three days of…
