One of the biggest decisions people have to make across all branches is when to exit the military,” says Ben Backsmeier, MBA ’24, who last year became chairman of Orion Military Scholars, a nonprofit ...

With limited capacity, how should decision-makers decide who gets in? Zhiqiang Zhang: Today, many admission decisions for diversion programs are supported by machine-learning algorithms. These tools ...

Crypto enthusiasts used to have a catchphrase in response to the doubters: “Have fun staying poor.” Their message: Go ahead, invest in your boring stocks and bonds while we get rich with Bitcoin, ...

The revolution that’s been happening in financial services is right in your pocket: the phone that you pull out when the check arrives after a restaurant dinner with friends. Until relatively recently ...

Talk to almost anyone about the forces at work behind Western politics’ contemporary upheaval, and it will not take long for your conversation to reach the discontents of the working class. In the ...

Accounting for the costs of climate change is an increasing focus globally. In 2024, the United States alone had 27 “confirmed weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each,” ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

During the fierce congressional debates that led to the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, advocates and opponents of the proposal agreed on one thing: The once-in-a-generation bill, under the ...

If you’re not sure quite how to peg the economy these days, you have plenty of company among many middle-class Americans working to get ahead. On one hand, jobs are plentiful and growth is solid. On ...

US vice president Kamala Harris took on price gouging as a significant part of her presidential campaign’s economic policy platform, promising if elected to call for “the first-ever federal ban on ...

For decades, college has been seen by many in the US as the ticket to upward mobility. But it’s hard to separate the value added by college from the outcomes students would have experienced without it ...

Drug price caps are meant to bring an array of benefits for patients and healthcare systems—improved access to essential and life-saving medicines, better public health outcomes, and reduced financial ...