Explore what economic sunspots are, how they influence financial markets independently of fundamentals, and their fascinating ...

Background Suicide rates have increased over the last couple of decades globally, particularly in the United States and among populations with lower economic status who present at safety-net ...

Dependent variables change based on other inputs in financial models, affecting investment outcomes. Independent variables like earnings affect dependent variables, influencing metrics like P/E ratios ...

I think the Dynamic Variables section could be enhanced by providing examples of how to create a new "Bruno" variable from a random one and including a link to ...

The copyright page on new books and reprints now says they can’t be used or reproduced ‘for the purpose of training artificial intelligence.’ The copyright page on new books and reprints now says they ...

I understand the principle of a random common cause as described in this CausalWizard doc with the example of height and lung cancer. Here we have a variable (height) that we don't think should be ...

The use of factual/counterfactual comparisons—that is, estimating the difference between what actually happened and what would have happened absent an event—is a fundamental tool in the economists’ ...