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The AI hangover is coming. AI can change the world, and many of today’s AI investments can still turn out to be terrible. The pandemic... Read More

Trump's tariffs pushed Carney to improve the Canadian economy. Read More

In the contrarian logic of investing, rising interest rates have made bonds much more attractive Read More

A conversation on "Worth the Risk: The Seven Myths That Keep Us from Taking the Chances We Need to Take" Read More

The race for technological supremacy is fracturing societies and rules out international cooperation. Read More

Entitlement spending, defense spending, and interest payments on the debt continue to climb. Read More

The rising left within the Democratic Party is facing a storm of anti-communism. President Donald Trump has set the tone, labeling figures... Read More

On October 12, 2026, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Robert E. Hall of... Read More

Homelessness, all appearances to the contrary, is a long-solved problem. We know both the causes and the cure. You wouldn’t think... Read More

Who cares what economists think? The question rates asking after a recent report in the Wall Street Journal noted how “economists... Read More

London’s exodus of billionaire wealth offers a warning to major U.S. cities: economic advantage won’t offset high taxes forever. Read More

You're almost certainly more heavily invested in the stock market than you should be.  Read More

Trump's post-2018 playbook proves a Democratic Congress won't sideline his regulatory power, and data center fights are the clearest warning. Read More

Much of the AI discussion in the U.S. has centered on the need to win the technology race with China. While the U.S. is focused on achieving... Read More

Americans are being fed a simple story: data centers are about to break the electric grid. Every week brings new forecasts. Utilities revise... Read More

Words have specific meanings. Unfortunately, capitalism is frequently misused by supporters and critics alike. Too often, what people defend... Read More

The sheer size of Medicare and Medicaid has made it necessary that the federal government create a detailed, complex system for assigning a... Read More

Catch-up contributions, smarter Social Security timing and guaranteed income can help Gen X avoid working longer than planned. Read More

With each passing day, it’s ever more certain: Social Security benefits for the elderly will fall — dramatically — by 2032 . . . and... Read More

One pleasant surprise to come out of the second Trump Administration has been its approach to antitrust enforcement. Following his 2024... Read More

The fact-checkers challenge the liars. Read More

More than $3.5 trillion of AI infrastructure spending could be exposed to impairment by the end of 2030. Read More

Data this week has all told the same story: This is a rip-roaring U.S. economy with all the inflationary pressures that might imply. Read More

Don't shoot the messenger Read More

Trump launched his third round of broad tariffs after his first two attempts ran into legal trouble. Read More

If you thought that concentration risk was a US problem, you are wrong. Read More

A decade ago energy was the problem child of the junk market, now it's cable and media.  Read More

U.S. equities have delivered strong returns in recent years, but beneath the headline performance of the S&P 500 Index lies mounting... Read More

Higher interest rates have not slowed the data center buildout.  Read More

The left and the right increasingly agree that the government should embrace stronger economic intervention and industrial policy. Both sides... Read More