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Is celebrity streamer Hasan Piker an elite? Is the president of Harvard just an ordinary working Joe? Or is it the reverse? Or is it the... Read More

People hurt by negligence or worse deserve redress — but the class-action bar and its buddies in government are extortionists, pure and... Read More

At noon on Feb. 13, 1788, huge crowds gathered outside Parliament to witness members of the House of Lords process into Westminster Hall.... Read More

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent did not undersell it. Announcing Operation Economic Outcast on Aug. 24, he framed it as an “economic... Read More

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh used his Jackson Hole speech last week to lay out what he thinks of monetary policy. Two things jumped... Read More

Why indeed.  Read More

It won’t stop with melanoma. Yes, you read that right. That’s the beauty of commercial leaps. They beget copious investment in... Read More

I was once stranded with my 86-year-old mother in the Atlantic Ocean. We were on a snorkeling excursion off the coast of Miami, and the two... Read More

Bill Gates is the latest tech titan to weigh-in with a mini-manifesto on AI. History shows, when it comes to technology, those who... Read More

It's lost on economists that inflation is a shrinkage of the dollar unit for which Treasury is the mouthpiece.  Read More

America's grip on world markets — always the One Top, always setting the pace for the global economy — is behaving strangely.... Read More

Did you catch Nvidia’s (NVDA) earnings on Wednesday? This is the stock of a lifetime. Read More

Pundits’ list of worries is long and growing these days, including $40 trillion in US debt, high stock valuations, rising Treasury... Read More

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Kevin Warsh has spent his first months as Federal Reserve chairman trying to get investors to stop watching him and start watching the data.... Read More

Google has invested over $20 billion in Council Bluffs, Iowa, transforming the transcontinental railroad's Mile Zero into a data center... Read More

For more than two centuries, the First Amendment has provided Americans with protection from government censorship of speech and... Read More

Affordability is Washington’s topic du jour, as both parties scramble to address it ahead of the midterms. For millions of Americans,... Read More

On August 22, the United States imposed tariffs of 50 percent on C$28 billion ($20 billion) of Canadian goods after trade talks... Read More

The biggest schools with huge budgets love the status quo even if everyone else – including many of their own athletes – are getting the... Read More

Big-time college football’s season begins on Saturday. Before the other professional league, the NFL, becomes a distraction, consider... Read More

Snap, crackle and pop. A set of German-made socket wrenches can turn a bolt in a similar way to a cheaper alternative, but it feels far more... Read More

One easy trick to make yourself smarter. Read More

Probably not. Read More

History doesn't make any guarantees. Read More

The forces pushing up food prices are starting to pile up: expensive grain, soaring fertilizer and fuel, plus unpredictable weather and... Read More

Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much. Read More

On the danger of finding the patterns you're looking for. Read More

It is a long-established fear among bond investors and economists that a country that runs higher budget deficits will eventually suffer from... Read More

For decades, global investors were willing to pay a premium for the safety and liquidity of US Treasurys. That premium has eroded in recent... Read More

Top investors have been selling these stocks recently. Read More

The last 40 years were special; they aren't a template for the next 40. Read More