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This is the first in a two-part series of the Great Dispersion of Americans across the country. For much of the past century, in both the... Read More

Coke and other food giants have acquiesced to token reforms under Trump — but are lobbying hard against real change Read More

Maybe Trump can officiate? After all, Bessent is one of his closest advisers. On the other hand, the president loves Pulte’s recent public... Read More

Census data shows 15 million excess housing units exist, contradicting claims of a housing shortage that activists use to justify eliminating... Read More

Financial and debt crises aren't so much solved as covered up by political actions aimed at alleviating market anxieties. Read More

When should the public expect the job numbers to improve? White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to answer. It didn’t go well. Read More

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Investors are exuberant not just in the stock market, but in the gold and bond markets as well. That has hardly ever happened before, and it... Read More

People are not a burden, nor are they a job taken. See Detroit, MI. The continuous arrival  of automotive jobseekers over 100 years ago... Read More

The question of succession has hung over Lachlan Murdoch his entire life. It has finally, definitively been answered. The family’s... Read More

The poll seems to show a small drop in Americans’ view of capitalism, but a closer look suggest the only sure thing is that Democrats... Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether or not President Trump’s tariffs will stand. On September 3, Trump’s Solicitor General... Read More

Writing in The Hill recently, Bledsoe warned that millions of Americans have been turned off by radical “fossil fuel... Read More

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has one job to do. Read More

The Washington Post has reported that House Democrats have launched a new effort to “redefine” what their party stands for. They... Read More

A new spate of cases illustrates crooks’ common threads. Read More

Progressives are portraying Judge Amit Mehta’s opinion in the Google antitrust case this week as a whiff for the ages.   Matt... Read More

Our decades-old federal privacy laws have not kept pace with the many trends that have transformed our very online world. Read More

Retirement savers who didn't panic earlier in 2025 ended up seeing some pretty sharp gains, instead of more pain, in their 401(k) plans... Read More

Haywood Talcove recently tasked his financial advisors and ChatGPT with reviewing the portfolio he manages for his mother, Dotty, an... Read More

Discover why concerns about stagflation are rising, and how asset allocators may be able to hedge the effects on their portfolio. Read More

We must continue to be that beacon of freedom around the world. Read More

It seems a fair bet that in a few years’ time we will come to see the two most dangerous words in investing as... Read More

Tech giants' astronomical spending on AI infrastructure comes with a colossal hedge: In a crucial way, it's not really spending on... Read More

There are fewer public companies to invest in, and firms that decide to do an IPO are getting older and... Read More

That's what a chart circulating on the internet says but is it true? Read More

Those who thought the economic case for immigration was wrong or had changed for the worse were wrong. Read More

This is the age when you should begin moving to safer investments. Read More

Our chart book—available here—documents the extreme AI concentration within the S&P 500’s market cap, returns, earnings... Read More

Constructing a passive strategy obviously involves making active decisions. Read More

Looking for the best dividend funds? These dividend ETFs and mutual funds earn high ratings from Morningstar. Read More