The United States is entering a dangerous phase where the habits formed in the pandemic era, easy money and sweeping stimulus, collide with the hard arithmetic of debt, inflation, and slowing growth.

The fundamental principles of economics are based on human nature and do not change regardless of how they are interpreted. People behave certain ways on an individual and societal level based on the ...

The economics world has countless people doing fascinating research, and as much as we try at Planet Money, there's a lot of stuff that we don't end up covering. So periodically, we like to do a ...