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When even “private” efforts to revive intercity passenger rail cannot work, it’s time to admit that Americans don’t like trains. Read More

From Venezuela to Cuba to the Soviet Union, history shows socialism creates shortages, inflation and higher costs rather than eliminating... Read More

Bernie Sanders spent this week doing something he has done before, only with sharper teeth. In a letter first published by Axios, he wrote to... Read More

Market prices are by their very name erratic, and that's to the substantial betterment of the U.S. economy. Read More

Last week’s surprise announcement that the U.S. Treasury Department would assist Japan in propping up the yen has raised questions... Read More

Nvidia may no longer be the hottest artificial-intelligence trade, but Wall Street analysts are still fans. Among dozens of analysts tracked... Read More

In June, Apple did the thing it almost never does. It raised prices across the lineup at once. The base 13-inch MacBook Air went up two... Read More

When Henry Ford’s Model T revolutionized the car market, affording everyday Americans the opportunity to buy a car, automakers realized... Read More

School supplies are becoming too expensive for families across the U.S. as they budget for mounting gas and grocery expenses. Read More

The Trump administration has consistently implemented (and recently lowered) Section 232 tariffs on industries critical to America’s... Read More

The lawsuit to block Paramount Skydance’s $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery could chase away a key source of funds for... Read More

The Paramount Skydance chief executive David Ellison has threatened to abandon Hollywood by moving his company from California to a redder... Read More

Many people work hard to pay off their mortgages ahead of retirement. That way, by the time their career wraps up, they can enjoy the... Read More

In the spring of 2008, shortly before the financial world completely imploded, I traveled around Florida reporting on the real-estate crash.... Read More

Note to future mayors: Naming and shaming nearly a million homeowners in your city isn’t a good use of political capital. Eight months... Read More

I knew the private equity party was over when I started hearing about PE firms rolling up car washes. Read More

SpaceX is making money from leasing out excess data center capacity but the money is still coming from investments. Read More

Mayo doctors work as teams. They're paid to heal, not to operate or medicate. Read More

A new generation of GOP leaders agree that the old free market orthodoxy won’t hold together the Trump coalition. The party is now... Read More

The deal for the Los Angeles Lakers valued the team at a record $12.5 billion, eclipsing the $10 billion paid for the franchise just last... Read More

It's the question that keeps millions of Americans up at night. Do I have enough saved for retirement? Read More

If you're the president I guess blatant insider trading is quasi-legal now? Read More

The tailwinds behind the US economy are not just AI spending, the industrial renaissance and the One Big Beautiful Bill.  Read More

UK GDP growth slowed a smidge to 1.7% annualized in Q2, but we see a lot for investors to like.[i] Atop the “plus” column: It... Read More

Using Asian Development Bank multiregional input-output tables for 2007–24, this Policy Brief traces Chinese value added throughout the US... Read More

We've gotten two better than expected inflation reports but they don't look like part of a trend. Read More

Foreign equities continue to outperform U.S. stocks this year, but there are signs that international leadership is faltering, based on a set... Read More