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The Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, passed and signed in 2022, went into effect on May 1. It demands... Read More

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High-frequency traders have always made money by being faster than everyone else. Read More

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The federal government has just radically changed the way it measures higher education outcomes. Now for the first time, all programs that... Read More

It just goes to show ya. It's always something. If it's not one thing, it's another. Read More

Two of the most valuable companies in American artificial intelligence, Anthropic and OpenAI, are preparing to go public at valuations near... Read More

The biggest problems aren’t caused by what you don’t know, but what, as Mark Twain put it, “you know for sure that just... Read More

I’m just back from a two-week trip across America where I met 40 innovators building the future. One experience that stuck with me was... Read More

Clear-eyed economic thinking remains one of humanity’s most powerful instruments for understanding our problems and advancing our... Read More

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a fraud. Centrally planned, politicized consumption of precious wealth (government spending) adds to the... Read More

For the health of the American economy, tax rates on wealthy Americans will need to rise in the coming years. The rates have fallen over the... Read More

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act has become law, establishing federal incentives to build more housing and stopping private equity home... Read More

Earlier this year, juries in California and New Mexico returned significant verdicts against Meta for harms inflicted on children through its... Read More

Carole House: The bill may be well-intentioned, but it is riddled with dangerous loopholes. Read More

President Trump in his first term declared the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement the greatest free trade agreement in human history. Indeed,... Read More

Roth IRAs have earned a reputation as one of the best retirement accounts available, and for good reason. With a Roth IRA, your investments... Read More

Another argument for claiming benefits early.  Read More

Even now, in a time of deregulation, the government interferes in the marketplace too much. There’s a mish-mash of independent... Read More

America’s financial markets didn’t begin with technology. They began with banks.  Read More

Trying to punish Brazil for adopting a better payment system Read More

Questions about recessions, housing, bond yields and more. Read More

Older workers face two major impediments: looming Social Security cuts and a rapidly evolving workplace. Read More

When a superpower’s economy lags, hegemony becomes unsustainable. Read More

In short, the massive investments that hyperscalers are making in "compute" are pumping cash into the coffers of the companies that make the... Read More

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Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives. Read More

While tariffs may protect some domestic industries, they ultimately reduce aggregate output, manufacturing activity, and the global... Read More

After what many see as a rough first half, attitudes toward Europe’s economies are decidedly dark. Yet economic reality is in far... Read More

The stocks of these high-quality companies look cheap today. Read More

A bottom is now in for trade between the U.S. and China. It might even be *the* bottom for the global tariff war that began in April 2025 but... Read More

The dividend outlook of the S&P 500 had a mixed outcome for July 2026.  Read More