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Despite the negative spin from the news media, the latest government economic report showed positive signs of strength in the U.S. economy,... Read More

The merchants are becoming princes. Read More

Socialists are winning Democratic primaries. But are they winning over Americans? On paper, many love socialist economic policies but hate... Read More

Backlash against tariffs has the potential to cost the White House dearly in the November elections. But investors have mostly moved on. Read More

The profit motive produces its own “gravediggers.” That’s what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels argued in The Communist... Read More

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) propose new spending that could more than triple federal outlays. Read More

The S&P 500 is in position for a rare fourth year of consecutive annual gains. Risks are rising, yet Wall Street is doubling down. Read More

Ben's rules for how often to check your portfolio. Read More

American sports laws amount to a kind of out-in-the-open conspiracy to help a lucky few billionaires get much, much richer Read More

All margin increases aren't created equal. Read More

They're fine. Read More

President Nixon abandoned the gold standard. The deeper problem was a monetary system dependent on political judgment. Read More

General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into... Read More

Jeffrey Frankel advises the US not to squander what remains of its influence by demanding foreign-exchange interventions. Read More

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

One of the biggest mistakes we make when talking about inflation is pretending that everyone experiences the same thing. They don’t.... Read More

A nominal spending target would spare The Fed guessing about the causes of inflation. The Chairman's new task force could apply a rule... Read More

Consumer inflation eased in July, providing the Federal Reserve with a fresh round of data to stay patient on the decision of whether to... Read More

Under a new national security memo will allow the state to deputize private tech firms to carry out "offensive hacking operations".  Read More

Chuck Palahniuk on the impact of his book and the movie it spawned.  Read More

As a group, these stocks wiped out an estimated $217.2 billion in shareholder wealth over the past 10 years. Read More

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

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

Leverage and complexity are gaining ground in today’s late-cycle markets, signaling caution – not crisis – and underscoring the value... Read More

The relation between stocks and bonds indicates whether supply or demand shocks dominate the risks to economic activity. After two decades of... Read More