The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (“Chicago Booth,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is part of the University of Chicago and acts as a data controller for the personal data described in this ...

The Save More Tomorrow plan allows employees to allocate a portion of their future salary increases toward retirement savings. In the past decade, there has been a rapid shift among employers from ...

The Stigler Center is an intellectual destination for research and programming on regulatory capture, crony capitalism, and the various forms of subversion of competition by special-interest groups.

Within months of COVID-19’s first emergence in China, the World Health Organization admitted it was battling, alongside the pandemic, something nearly as dangerous and certainly as complicated: a ...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t your typical office worker. He was No. 3 on the 2020 Forbes list of the richest Americans, with a net worth of $125 billion, give or take. But there’s at ...

A conceptual artwork titled “Comedian” sold at auction last November for just over $6 million. The piece consisted of a banana duct-taped to the wall, along with installation instructions and a ...

Walk down the aisles of any US convenience store and you could easily feel assailed by rows of similar—yet different—products competing for attention. Bags of Tostitos Scoops! tortilla chips share ...

Crypto enthusiasts used to have a catchphrase in response to the doubters: “Have fun staying poor.” Their message: Go ahead, invest in your boring stocks and bonds while we get rich with Bitcoin, ...

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Hollywood mogul David Geffen enraged many social media users when he posted a photo of his yacht, Rising Sun, on calm waters. “Isolated in the Grenadines ...

The introduction of the price tag was a big step forward for American retailing, and you can thank John Wanamaker. In the 1870s, Wanamaker purchased a former Philadelphia railroad depot and expanded ...

While politics in the United States has become polarized, Americans may hold less extreme views than many people realize. Political scientists describe a “purple America,” a large moderate middle ...

Inflation is typically thought of negatively, since rising prices erode purchasing power. But the trade-off is that it also erodes the real value of debt, and that can bolster household real wealth.