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Most policymakers at the Fed foresee at least one more interest rate cut in 2026, while Wall Street is looking for two. The ...

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A financial “security” is nothing more than a claim on some stream of cash flows that investors expect to be delivered into ...

In theory, retirees, or soon-to-be retirees, should make up a chunk of this group. Americans reportedly believe they need about $1.3 million to retire comfortably. (6) However, in reality, few of them ...

The change in the average U.S. tariff rate in 2025 was the largest in the modern era. One way to assess the effects of such a ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the consumer price index for December. Economists forecast a 2.7% year-over-year ...

One of the defining public health stories of 2025 was the return of diseases once thought to be under control. As the world ...

Introduction Integrating smoking cessation supports into lung cancer screening can improve abstinence rates. However, ...

This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

Physicists uncover a universal limit on timekeeping precision, proving that anything from heartbeats to ocean waves can be a ...

By: KENNETH CUKIER We see the world not as it is, but as we are. In the domain of data, economists need to rethink what ...