Preeti Varathan

The excitement around Black Panther, Marvel’s first black superhero movie, is deafening. The film, released today, is poised to bring home $180 million this weekend. According to the movie tickets site Fandango, it has pre-sold more tickets than any other superhero movie. The buzz seems justified: Movie critics are calling it “incredible, kinetic, purposeful” and “as touching as it is thrilling.”

US consumer prices have risen more than expected, stoking fears that inflation is about to get much higher.

Who flipped the switch? After a seemingly endless bull run, stocks around the world shed trillions of dollars in market value this week. The Dow saw its largest point decline ever during a trading day, and the S&P 500 fell more than 100 points.

Russia has busted engineers working at a classified nuclear research facility for using powerful government supercomputers to mine for cryptocurrencies.

Actual media might be making a comeback.

There are lots of stereotypes floating around about US millennials, not the least of which is that they all live in Brooklyn and San Francisco.

Donald Trump’s return to tweeting about the US stock market is accidentally astute.

US stocks are experiencing their worst week in two years. Today (Feb. 5), the Dow plunged more than 1,000 points—the largest point decline ever during a trading day. The S&P 500, the composite index of 500 large American companies, declined more than 4%. The Nasdaq also fell considerably.

Jerome Powell is stepping into one of the most powerful jobs in the economics world as the head of the US Federal Reserve. And he’s taking over the central bank during shaky times: after a rapid sell-off last week, the S&P 500 was falling again today (Feb. 5).

Last week, the S&P 500 closed at an all-time high. Today, most major indexes tumbled, while the VIX, the stock market’s measure of volatility, is up. The lukewarm market has some worried the long anticipated correction is finally here.

US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen is scheduled to step down tomorrow from her eight years at the helm, and for most of her tenure, interest rates remained at historic lows. She finally gave into clamors for tightening in 2015 and raised rates. The Fed has raised rates four more times since, and initiated the unwinding of its $4.5 trillion balance sheet. Markets, anticipating these policy changes, stayed calm.

In 2014, Janet Yellen became the first woman to head up one of the world’s most powerful economic institutions, the US Federal Reserve. Indeed, by some measures, she became the most powerful woman in the world.

Amazon has disrupted fashion, books, furniture, food, cloud-based storage services, and much else besides. Now, it’s coming for one of the biggest, most complex industries in the US: healthcare.

One in six millennials has $100,000 squirreled away in a savings account, 401(k), IRA, or investment fund. Almost half of millennials have managed to put away $15,000. It’s not just a matter of select millennials being rich, either—one in three of those with $100,000-plus saved makes less than $90,000 a year.

Economics textbooks are many things: didactic, theoretical, traditional, and, to some, boring. New evidence suggests they may also be out of touch on gender.

Despite electing a president who broadcasts his distaste for immigrants, Americans like immigration more than they did two decades ago.

In 1950, the average African had almost twice as much income as the average Asian. At 63% of the world’s average, she wasn’t far behind the typical global citizen, either.

Millennials with money in the bank are big on saving—but they’re not so eager to invest.

Some of Bank of America’s poorest customers may have to pay a $12 monthly fee just to hold an account.

The US Department of Labor (DOL) wants to do away with tips, by making it legal for employers to pool their workers’ tips as long as they’re paid minimum wage. But the proposed policy is contentious—no one can agree what happens to the tips, once they’re pooled.

Standardized tests measure many things—math, science, reading—and, crucially, how hard students actually try.

Apple officially apologized for reducing older iPhones’ performance to compensate for dying batteries, calling the whole thing a ”misunderstanding.”

If you want to be an American inventor, you’ll need two things: to excel at math and science, and to have a rich family.

America is trying to come to terms with its economic inequality. Does inequality spur growth or kill it? Is it a necessary evil—or necessarily bad? Angus Deaton, an economics professor at Princeton, and the recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics, is asked questions like these all the time—and he doesn’t see the point.