A tax wedge is the difference between before-tax and after-tax wages. It also refers to the market inefficiency that is created when a good is taxed.

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

A prospectus is an official document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that offers details about an investment being offered to the public for purchase. The prospectus is a legal ...

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Social engineering is the art of exploiting human psychology, rather than technical hacking techniques, to gain access to buildings, systems, or data. For example, instead of trying to find a software ...

A food web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment. The simplest explanation is that food webs are "who eats whom" ...

What is a logic bomb? A logic bomb is a set of instructions embedded in a software system that, if specified conditions are met, triggers a malicious payload to take actions against the operating ...