Latest articles by Evan Soltas


Week-long vacations are going out of style.



Amir Sufi is changing the debate in economics with a simple point — debt matters, a lot, and to fix the economy you need to get rid of it.


Researchers gave lawyers a few different research memos. Sometimes they said a memo’s author was white. Sometimes they said its author was black. When lawyers thought the author was black, they judged it much more harshly.


As labor unions have declined, a new institution has risen — occupational licensing — that has a similar impact on average wages, but without decreasing economic inequality the way labor unions traditionally have.


High-frequency trading is in the news again thanks to Michael Lewis’ new book. But to understand the controversy, you need to understand how it works. Then you’ll see what the real problems are.
