Both of these Greek letters are used in economics as shorthand for factors of elasticity but, in this case, the White House assigned them respective values of 0.25 and 4. Multiplying these, per ...

The "OK" hand gesture has been added to an expanding list of hate symbols used by white supremacists. The Anti-Defamation League announced dozens of new additions to its database Thursday. The ...

The White House shared a formula containing symbols like epsilon and phi—but critics pointed out they served no purpose. Trump’s tariff formula has fancy Greek symbols. No one is sure why ...

While consensus is that the tariff formula's use of fancy Greek symbols served little purpose—other than to look fancy—there is still the question of where the formula came from in the first place.