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James K. Galbraith explains why a new effort to revive an old economic-policy doctrine is doomed to fail. Read More

What economists have argued for generations is now reflected in public opinion: Americans see free trade as the better alternative to... Read More

Is the Fed being roped into easing? Read More

Strategy is your long term plan. Read More

For most retirees, the greatest fear is not death—it is running out of money before they die. Read More

SpaceXAI spent $18b of capital last quarter, $16b of it on AI, a hyperscaler's budget covered 12% by operations. Equity & credit have both... Read More

The moment a company starts prioritizing its stock price over its product quality, it’s headed in the wrong direction. It’s the... Read More

Here is the most important investment principle of the artificial intelligence (AI) era: find the bottleneck holding back an industry. Read More

Nearly 240 years after drafting the Constitution, the Founding Fathers still seem to have gotten far more right than wrong. In the main, our... Read More

In speeches, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells rapt audiences that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is “work.” Yes,... Read More

Here's why.  Read More

Imagine a judicial system that announces a verdict in February, files charges in March, convicts all sixty defendants in June, and then acts... Read More

The longtime culture warrior is now talking about affordability and complaining about the economy. Read More

Mayor Mamdani’s plan would harm neighborhood retailers instead of helping low-income families buy food. Read More

The pied-a-terre tax targets far more than billionaires, potentially hitting nearly 1 million New York City homeowners and crashing condo... Read More

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Yes, his fund is down to $10 billion in assets from its high of $45 billion, but even with his massive puke, he’s still up around 80% for... Read More

The U.S. Treasury Department’s official reason for intervening in the Japanese yen last week was to prop up a major currency that is... Read More

In late April, United Steelworkers (USW) members got a text message that should have been reassuring but, instead, raised more questions than... Read More

Summer heat causes hundreds of workplace deaths each year Read More

A neutral, sourced catalogue of dated AI forecasts — both falsified and currently open. Read More

REITs have done well this year. Are they still a buy? Read More

Transform your brain from foe to friend.  Read More

Is today’s stock market inexplicably serene, or is it convulsing in frenzied volatility? Depends on what you're watching... Read More

Grocery stores all have the same margins for a reason. Read More

Once completed, the 2,177-kilometer GCC Railway will connect six Gulf kingdoms and provide alternative routes to Europe and Asia. Read More

Long-term government bond yields are on the rise yet again. Read More

NGDP is growing too fast. Read More

The S&P 500 was flat but the details were more interesting. Read More

Gold and bitcoin have retreated from recent highs, but most major market indicators still sit above long-term averages. Read More

Markets remained mixed for a second month in July, based on a set of ETFs tracking the major asset classes.  Read More

Relax: Warren Buffett isn’t predicting a stock-market collapse. Read More

The stocks of these high-quality companies look cheap today. Read More

The 60/40 portfolio is broken because equity returns are driven by AI concentration rather than the business cycle, while bond returns are... Read More