In the 1987 Oliver Stone classic Wall Street, Michael Douglas’ role as the brazen corporate raider, Gordon Gekko, not only won the actor an Oscar for his performance but iconized his character as the ...

I’ve been reflecting lately on the term “zero sum game.” It’s one of those phrases that gets thrown around often in business, particularly in negotiations. The idea is simple: in a zero-sum game, one ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney warned on Friday that moves by central banks to cut interest rates below zero risked creating a "beggar-thy-neighbour" environment which could ...

Many school district administrators and board members across the country say they’ve recently had to cut investments in facilities and instruction to make room for the ballooning cost of pensions for ...

Normally, I do a decent job turning my work switch off during the holidays. However, this time, as the holidays approached, I couldn’t help but reflect on the state of our healthcare system, given the ...

About a third of Americans either “agree” or “strongly agree” that the economy is a zero-sum game — that one person must lose for another to gain. The figures are higher still for Democrats when they ...

Every 10 years, state governments grapple with the question of how to draw the congressional districts assigned to them after the census. It’s a brutal, zero-sum game played out on a state-by-state ...