Should Uber and Lyft be electrifying more vehicles?
Professor Jeremy Michalek and his Ph.D student Matthew Bruchon have published a study investigating what vehicle electrification would look like in a world where...
Over 20.5 million years of life may have been lost due to COVID-19
In a new study, researchers found that over 20.5 million years of life may have been lost due to COVID-19 globally, with an average...
Should short selling be banned following GameStop’s surge
It is often claimed that short sales are manipulative and drive down prices.
Is this the case?
Or are short sales in fact a vital part...
Financial problems could be an early sign of dementia
A new study found that financial problems can be an early sign of dementia.
Some older adults had such problems years before being diagnosed with...
What ‘GameStonk’ might mean for the market in the future
Spurred on by a Reddit message board, small investors snapped up shares of the retailer, spurring an investment frenzy.
But what was the logic behind...
Housing speculators could bring on repeat crash in the market
Housing speculation inflated a third of the housing bubble that led to the Great Recession. In parts of the country, it could happen again.
In...
How much is news worth to Google and Facebook?
Are Google and Facebook really prepared to pull services from their Australian users rather than hand over some money to publishers under the bargaining...
What’s next for the U.S. economy?
Over the past year, the United States has grappled with the ebb and flow of COVID-19 cases and the damage they’ve caused the economy.
While...
Lending fraud could wreck economy again, shows study
Much has changed in the U.S. financial system since the most recent financial crisis.
But one thing hasn’t changed, according to a new study from...
When and where entrepreneurship has thrived
A new study about American entrepreneurship in 1988-2014 shows that startups have done particularly well in Silicon Valley, the Boston-Cambridge area, and Austin, among...