The discounting concept is widely used in economics and psychology. When referring to economics, the principle defines a value that will be received in the future, based on present financial terms. It ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released its preliminary analysis of the Boxer-Kerry cap-and-trade bill. It largely reheats their analysis of the Waxman-Markey bill from last summer ...

Economic analysis of climate change and climate policies is fraught with many problems. Uncertainty and imprecision surround fundamental scientific and economic factors, such as, for example, how much ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business ...

Grandma and Grandpa are sitting alone in their living room in Dubuque, Iowa in February. It is -15° Fahrenheit (-26°C) and they haven’t been truly comfortable in two months. They want a Club Med ...

It’s not just Kogan offering dodgy discounts. Don’t fall for these sneaky psychological tricks retailers use to get you to spend more. But apparently not all of those discounts have been legit, ...

The economic trend for nearly every restaurant operator in 2022 was to raise prices, with most companies taking mid-single digit-- or sometimes double-digit menu price increases in order to keep pace ...