Consider this as Part 3 counting previous articles on the same topic in this column, “The Laffer Curve of Philippine tobacco taxation” (May 22, 2023) and “The Laffer Curve of Philippine tobacco ...

Rookies can add great things to their teams come playoff time. And there are moments where you’re reminded they are rookies. That was the case for defenseman Zeev Buium on Saturday, after he ...

Voters booted Casey from the Senate. Pope Francis is dead. His example lives on. Francis had the moral authority to speak truth to power because he walked his talk. He led 1.4 billion Catholics ...

The federal-funds rate is an overnight rate, so it anchors the very short end of the yield curve. Fixed-income instruments with low risk and very short maturities (say, a one-month T-bill ...

The evolution of web search engines offers an instructive example, showing how knowledge can be extracted from unstructured sources and refined over time into a structured, interconnected graph.

The Snail Vibe Curve is shaped like the mega-slow gastropod it’s named after. One end of the nine-inch toy is a shell-like spiral, while the other side has a handle and controls that look a ...

For example, stocks that display a bell curve are usually blue-chip stocks and ones that have lower volatility and more predictable behavioral patterns. Investors use the normal probability ...

For example, the costs of the Medicaid program have grown, but more as a result of increased enrollment in the program than of greater spending per person. The costs of premium tax credits and ...

Computers, televisions and photographic equipment are good examples of the effects of technology on a supply curve. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index for ...

The IQ bell curve meme, also referred to as the “midwit” meme, makes use of a graph representation of the probability theory of normal distribution. This graph, commonly known as the “bell ...

Jim Grant thinks that the yield curve is not finished with us just yet Jim Grant, the well-known Wall Street gadfly and principal author of “Grant’s Interest Rate Observer,” was never a fan ...