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The staggering $3 billion donation is a big wager on the future of American higher education and a major boost for the growing Miami region. Read More

Forbes recently dropped its 2026 Forbes 400 list: The 400 richest Americans today are worth a combined $8 trillion. Read More

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Los Angeles had a housing shortage. So naturally, it decided to tax housing. Read More

Saturdays once again belong to college football. Stadiums are full, rivalries have reignited, and grills are being fired up in parking lots... Read More

More workers can now use pay advance apps for quick cash to cover expenses between paychecks. The apps may offer no-cost options, but most... Read More

Karl Marx predicted democracy would lead to socialism, and a new poll shows 65% of Democrats now view socialism positively despite its... Read More

Has inflation doused the FIRE movement?  Popularized in the 1990s, the Financial Independence, Retire Early movement inspires workers to... Read More

Jerome Powell was cleared of criminal wrongdoing in the Fed’s $2.5 billion “Palace of Versailles” headquarters fiasco — but what... Read More

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After years of fumbling around for an effective campaign message, Democrats seem to have finally found one in affordability. The idea... Read More

Price controls have had a stench about them since the 1970s, when they were implemented on a wide scale and found wanting. Yet politicians... Read More

Monetarism doesn't reject Keynesianism, rather it's Keynesianism's currency variant.  Read More

Meta says it made privacy a priority when it designed Muse, but its record on privacy protection is horrific. Read More

The Fear Industrial Complex drives AI apocalypse headlines, climate change panic and activist outrage from Greta Thunberg to legacy media. Read More

Unleashing cheap natural gas ends global energy poverty, proving affordable energy — not climate fear — saves millions of human lives. Read More

Flyers across the Northeast recently witnessed firsthand why America’s aviation system is in desperate need of an upgrade. A... Read More

President Trump recently boasted that all 50 state Medicaid programs, along with the DC and Puerto Rico programs, are now using Most Favored... Read More

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Today, I’ll go through a few of the most common crypto questions I’ve heard from readers… without all the overly... Read More

Why you can't trust sentiment surveys anymore. Read More

Christine Benz talks with tax expert Ed Slott about how qualified charitable distributions—QCDs—can reduce your taxes, satisfy required... Read More

If you're a buy and hold, long term investor, buying periodically, even in a bear market most of your investments will be making money. Read More

Seven years after founding a robotics startup in San Francisco, Rajat Bhageria is confronting a daunting new task: building robots without... Read More

This new paper from Anthropic finds that robots will only be able to replace 300,000 jobs in the US economy.  Read More

People around the world work to produce things for one another — and protectionism makes that cooperation harder. Read More

After a plague ridden crusade left Venice deep in debt, the republic created the world's first bond market. Read More

We are well aware of what it costs to sit out a mania while it is still running. However, we would rather explain a few years of patience... Read More

Commodities and cash were the only winners among the major asset classes in September. Read More

The AI wealth effect. Read More

By looking at the money that the Fed sends to the US Treasury each year, this explainer demonstrates how much these funds distort the... Read More

Wall Street equity analysts work in sector silos, and when you add up their forecasts, the numbers are internally inconsistent. Subscribe for... Read More

Inflation is still a problem no matter how you slice and dice the data. Read More