With 9:34 left in the second quarter of a June 29, 2025, game between the Minnesota Lynx and Connecticut Sun, guard Bria Hartley crossed to the left, near the top of the key, and attempted to charge ...

Robert Steven Samuelson of Campbell Hall, NY, passed away peacefully at home after a courageous seven-month battle with pancreatic cancer, surrounded by the love of his family. He was 77 years old.

A LaPorte County Police officer is recovering after being shot three times while on duty. The officer, Jon Samuelson, has been moved to a rehabilitation facility and may face paralysis. The man ...

Economic analysis can shine a revealing light on the causes and consequences of social unrest The past decade was marked by a series of high-profile social protests—the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter ...

A one-person operation, in this definition, is not a firm, and vertical integration deals with the question of adding ...

The Daily News Sentiment Index is a high frequency measure of economic sentiment based on lexical analysis of economics-related news articles. The index is described in Buckman, Shapiro, Sudhof, and ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the largest global economic crisis in more than a century. In 2020, economic activity contracted in 90 percent of countries, the world economy shrank by about 3 percent ...

Immigration has historically driven U.S. growth and filled labor shortages in various sectors, but it has also remained one of the most politically divisive issues. In the modern era, successive ...

KENNETH ROGOFF is Maurits C. Boas Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a former chief economist and Research Department director at the IMF. Opinions expressed in articles and other ...

Inflation measures how much more expensive a set of goods and services has become over a certain period, usually a year Ceyda Oner is a deputy division chief in the IMF’s Finance Department. Opinions ...

Thomas Helbling is an Advisor in the IMF’s Research Department. Opinions expressed in articles and other materials are those of the authors; they do not necessarily reflect IMF policy.