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When voters believe they're living through an economic apocalypse, they're willing to embrace the very policies that would create one. Read More

Forced redistribution dominates public discourse about wealth inequality, yet much of the debate overlooks how people earn, trade, innovate,... Read More

The US and, by implication, the world, is now in an intense AI speculative boom, but will all the investment pouring into the industry build... Read More

Decades of government deficit spending, share buybacks, dividends, and overconsumption have buoyed profits and inflated U.S. economic... Read More

David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and... Read More

The administration needs to shift focus away from providing chips and datacenters to the world’s richest companies. Read More

The World Bank estimated that it had caused an increase of about 100 million people living in extreme poverty, and poverty kills. Read More

It was Robert A.M. Stern’s ambition to replace Philip Johnson as the central figure in the architectural world of New York, and he more... Read More

The Trump administration wants America to lead the world on transportation technology, and it wants to remove burdensome federal regulations... Read More

It’s appalling that they don’t know it will be a nightmare. Read More

In his recently released memoir, Born To Be Wired, John Malone writes of attending the 1979 Western Show out in Anaheim, CA. What the TCI CEO... Read More

The president recently boasted that the U.S. has “factories going up all over.” It’d be great if that were true, but it’s not. Read More

Democrats predicted gloom, but consumer spending in the Trump economy surged during the holiday season with record online sales figures. Read More

Social scientists tell us that men think about sex 99.9728% of the time. The remaining 0.0272% occurs immediately after sex, when their only... Read More

Older workers earning more than $150,000 a year are about to lose a tax break on retirement savings. It isn’t as bad as it might... Read More

American consumers shouldn’t have to pay twice for the damage done by multinational oil and gas companies — once through the harm... Read More

Here's why. Read More

Australia’s green energy experiment has left millions of its citizens with a shaky power grid, serving as a case study on how blind... Read More

Investment professionals who work on Wall Street may be in need of grief counseling—or at least a hug and a strong drink—as they... Read More

Platforms make on-demand access a real alternative to ownership, by reducing the three core transaction costs of sharing with strangers. Read More

Bonds are cheap relative to stocks Read More

How's that whole golden age thing going for you so far? That golden age of human leisure and wealth awaiting us in a world optimized for the... Read More

Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments. Read More

Has bitcoin run out of greater fools? Read More

Recent data from the US Census Bureau shows that the amount of workers using AI on the job is falling to a dismal rate. Read More

There has been a lot of talk recently about whether there is a bubble in certain parts of the market, but this might be the wrong... Read More

The tailwinds of 2013 have largely passed. Read More

This report also examines the state of affordability for middle-class families across racial groups, finding that affordability across the... Read More

News about government policy isn’t just background noise : it’s a major driver of stock-market volatility. Read More

Despite reaching record prices, gold can play a valuable role in global portfolios as a diversifier and risk mitigator. Read More

An in-depth look at how sweeping federal workforce cuts under Trump are straining government services and risking operational failures. Read More

There is no shortage of attractive investment opportunities in Europe, but political realities, regulatory considerations, and consensus... Read More

In 2023, almost 1 in 6 children in the U.S. lived in households that at times were uncertain of having—or unable to acquire—enough food... Read More