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We say that civic life is fraying. We point to distrust, fragmentation, and the steady decline of shared experience in American... Read More

Barry Eichengreen compares the US currency's global trajectory to that of the Roman denarius under Emperor Nero. Read More

The Federal Reserve is staring at a set of circumstances that makes its job harder than it has been in decades. Read More

Residential solar and battery storage systems can become flexible, distributed power plants that can respond to grid stress in minutes. Read More

And the US might find it hard to give them up. Read More

One weird trick could extend Social Security's solvency while reducing payments to the wealthiest households. But it doesn't go far enough. Read More

In 1934, a best-selling book called Merchants of Death made a simple and outrageous argument: that arms manufacturers had conspired... Read More

To make money in public markets, it’s the main thing to focus on now. Read More

March’s US Employment Situation Report came out Friday, and we feel bad for it. Friday was a stock market holiday, so investors and... Read More

The Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) of 1998 imposed massive financial penalties on cigarette companies and sharply restricted their... Read More

As the correlation between stocks and bonds has turned positive, many investors have questioned whether bonds still provide meaningful... Read More

War symbolizes economic decline like nothing else precisely because it’s defined by the extermination of the very people who create all... Read More

If retirement were simply a matter of desire, today would be many people's last day on the job. Unfortunately for them, it's not that simple.... Read More

Contributions to individual retirement accounts have hit a record high, driven by enthusiasm for Roth contributions and increased awareness... Read More

President Abraham Lincoln’s appointment of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to lead the Union army, and their strategy of total war against the... Read More

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Right now, Congressional leaders continue to wrangle over the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, a bipartisan effort to lower housing costs by... Read More

We’re witnessing something rare in today’s environment: bipartisan interest in regulating a sector of the U.S. economy. The U.S.... Read More

Europe's digital trade policies unfairly target American tech giants like Apple, Google and Meta, and a Section 301 investigation is long... Read More

The drop in mortgage interest rates reported in March, the first time in four years that rates fell below 6.0 percent, was welcome news that... Read More

San Francisco is making real progress in the fight against homelessness; Los Angeles is not. And the difference is how each city treats... Read More

For all the anxiety in the financial press about private credit — especially amid a spate of redemption headlines — much of the... Read More

Can the sheer scale of compute fix the world before it breaks it? Read More

The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted. Read More

Property rights are an excellent way to ensure wise stewardship of natural resources. Read More

Shirtleeves to shirtsleeves in 3 generations is all wrong. Read More

Private market dynamics may give SpaceX advantages over typical IPOs, raising questions about fairness, access, and valuation in modern... Read More

On the high price of admission to the upper middle class and why it's making everyone worse off. Read More

We continue to view Japan as one of the more underappreciated corporate reform stories among global investors. Read More

Explore 10 wide-moat stocks to watch in 2026, including companies that look undervalued based on fundamentals and long-term growth potential. Read More

Looking for stocks that just raised their dividends? These three dividend stocks are all from companies with economic moats that we think... Read More

Our chart book (available here) looks at why gold prices have increased so much since 2022, and why they have fallen recently. Read More