"This is not politics," President Joe Biden said last week. "Reinstate the mandate if you let it down." Give him credit for consistency: When Gov. Greg Abbott ended Texas' mask mandate last month, ...

Often we confront risks: opportunities where we have some probability of gaining or losing something and have to decide whether or not to accept the opportunity. The simplest risks are financial. For ...

Risk aversion is a fundamental trait shaping how individuals, firms and policymakers respond to uncertain outcomes. It encapsulates the preference for certain outcomes over gambles with equivalent ...

Human beings differ in how much risk they will accept. Thus, as an analyst I quoted in a recent column concluded, Russian President Vladimir Putin “was too risk-acceptant” in invading Ukraine and ...

HEIGHTENED risk aversion among government officials could slow public spending and weigh on Philippine economic growth, Deutsche Bank said. Sentiment was said to deteriorated significantly due to an ...

Electronic Arts' preliminary Q3 2025 results led to a 17% stock plunge, with a full-year revenue outlook cut from $7.5 to 7.7% to $7 - $7.15. The challenging economics of the video gaming industry has ...

The crypto market mood remains somber ahead of the U.S. GDP data report due later today, which is expected to show the world's largest economy held firm in the third quarter. Bitcoin BTC $89,108.22, ...

1147 ET – The U.S. dollar is stronger as investors move into the traditional safe-haven currency following Israel’s attack on Iran. The WSJ Dollar Index rises to 94.82 gaining from 94.65 at Thursday’s ...

“This is not politics,” Joe Biden said last week. “Reinstate the mandate if you let it down.” Give him credit for consistency: When Gov. Greg Abbott ended Texas’s mask mandate last month, Biden called ...

Biden is clearly wrong on another point. This is not “not about politics.” America’s constitutional federal system, and the latitude both the Trump and Biden administrations have given to state ...