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May 1, 2026
The University of Michigan released its final April reading on Friday: 49.8 on the Consumer Sentiment Index, the lowest number in the survey's seventy-four-year history. It is worse...
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Apr 17, 2026
Planet Money recently published a piece titled "The Labor Economics of Alien and Its Lessons for Inequality on Earth." It describes itself as a preview of a new book about monopsony...
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Apr 14, 2026
In August 1955, Isaac Asimov published a short story called “Franchise” that described the 2008 presidential election. By then, a supercomputer called Multivac had made...
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Apr 9, 2026
In 1934, a best-selling book called Merchants of Death made a simple and outrageous argument: that arms manufacturers had conspired to drag the United States into World War...
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Apr 7, 2026
For decades, the case for restoring gold to its monetary role has been made with great intellectual seriousness and small political effect. Lewis Lehrman made it. Steve Forbes made...