Platforms that let you bet on the outcomes of future events have seen explosive growth recently. Economics correspondent Paul Solman explains how these prediction markets work and why they’re so ...

Roundhill, Bitwise, and GraniteShares have all filed to launch a slate of actively-managed ETFs that will invest in event contracts tied to political events.

XRG's chief operating officer Andrea Agostini speaks to The National about group's journey to becoming the dominant force in ...

President Donald Trump told Fox Business on Tuesday that the U.S. economy could grow by 15% a year if the Federal Reserve ...

Joshua Schmude wants you to do something unusual: record yourself speaking, play it backwards, and listen carefully.

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

The secret psychology behind why some people effortlessly maintain a spotless kitchen while cooking reveals surprising personality traits that predict success in every area of life.

To his credit, Kasy is a realist here. He doesn’t presume that any of these proposals will be easy to implement. Or that it will happen overnight, or even in the near future. The troubling question at ...

A new study of nearly 40,000 family violence reports shows more than 99% of people with risk factors for killing a family member don’t go on to do so.

Originally a staple of Newsweek 's print edition, Conventional Wisdom used arrows to track whose stock was rising or falling ...

At first glance, it looks like abstract theory. But this branch of mathematics has become one of the most powerful tools for prediction in the modern world. It helps forecast weather, model financial ...