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We are overdue for a recession, but economists can't say with much certainty when it will arrive.

Are we making progress toward a better and more equitable education system? Yale Insights talked with former secretary of education John King, now president and CEO of the Education Trust.

The number of women who die during childbirth is on the decline, but some regions face significant hurdles in making childbirth safer. Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet ’03, executive director of Merck for Mothers, discusses the state of maternal health.

With legislators demanding answers from Facebook and users deleting the company's app, its top leaders have been silent. We asked Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld how they should be responding to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Serial entrepreneur Brad Hargreaves YC ’08 talked with Yale SOM’s Jennifer McFadden ’08 about how to turn a hunch into a business opportunity.

A new paper looking at how investors assess the risk of a stock market crash in the next six months argues that negative media coverage of markets can play a role in investment decisions.

To avoid higher premiums and more “free riders," Fiona Scott Morton proposes that Connecticut require residents to buy insurance, contribute to a Health Savings Account, or pay a fee to the state.

Conventional wisdom says that uncertainty is bad for markets. But Yale SOM’s Stefano Giglio and his co-authors found that investors are willing to pay a premium to protect themselves only against actual market volatility, not mere uncertainty.

Should for-profit corporations be taking a stand on a hot-button political issue like guns? Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld argues that businesses need to not just respond but to lead.

Yale SOM’s Shyam Sunder writes that India may be able pass a law synchronizing its elections if it obscures the partisan consequences by enacting the change with a built-in delay.