Whac-A-Mole is an amusement arcade game, invented in Japan nearly a half-century ago, whose players try to hit moles as they pop up from their holes, but if they hit one another immediately pops up.

What the FX rate fixing and other recent market abuse cases like Libor, Sibor and the Gold fixing make clear is that the whac-a-mole method of risk management employed by participants — akin to ...

Florida company goes from manufacturing arcade games to making hand sanitizer stations HOLY HILL, Fla. – The maker of the popular Whac-a-Mole arcade game hopes its newest offering will help ...

Hurricane Helene swept across the Southeast, causing major flooding and destruction throughout North Carolina. Here is ongoing coverage from The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer about ...

Life expectancy gains have substantially slowed in wealthier nations, which appear to be nearing a limit to improvements ...

About the author: Larry Hatheway is a co-founder of Jackson Hole Economics, which originally published a version of this commentary, and the former chief economist of UBS. In the once-popular ...

The City of Asheville will start pressurizing parts of its water system served by the North Fork Reservoir this weekend, the next step in trying to rebuild the network of distribution lines ripped ...

Clay Chandler, spokesman for Asheville’s water resources department, said Friday that repair crews are on standby and will be “playing Whac-A-Mole” with the leaks, some of which are likely ...

The second-year coach swayed at the podium like he had a big mallet. “It’s like the whack-a-mole game, right?” Rhule said of the problems that a team has to fix. Turnovers last year?

To strengthen America’s federal government and keep its budget solvent, Federalists Alexander Hamilton and James Madison enacted in 1789 tariffs on imported goods. Their philosophical motive was ...