The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

President Donald Trump made a lot of tariff threats and trade promises this year. Many materialized into a barrage of new import taxes that overturned decades of U.S. economic policy — but others have ...

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 ...

Macroeconomic cycles are often defined by the environments in which certain assets tend to perform best. For example, real assets such as commodities and natural resource stocks have historically held ...

Aluminium (Al) batteries offer clear advantages over conventional batteries owing to their use of abundant and sustainable materials, but they currently rely on electrolytes that are usually corrosive ...