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As a citizen, it is impossible to ignore the results of last week's election. The electorate sent a pretty clear message that they are not... Read More

On Thursday, the S&P 500 fell 4.4%. The Nasdaq dropped 5.5%. For both indexes, it was the worst day since the tariff-related selloff in... Read More

Today’s hotter-than-expected inflation report just handed fresh ammunition to the Federal Reserve’s trigger-happy hawks.... Read More

Jensen Huang admitted to an affair with Alice Huang, a Chinese business executive suspected by U.S. intelligence agencies of being a recruit... Read More

America’s jobs market smashed October expectations. US consumers’ moods improved slightly, too, though concerns persist. Stocks... Read More

Voters have spoken, and Congress has flipped blue, to counter a Republican White House. Which side will get its way? Increasingly, neither,... Read More

Writing in the Wall Street Journal last week, former Fidelity Investments head Robert Pozen wrote what he always has, and that countless... Read More

Silicon Valley has a special talent for offering amazing products and then screwing them up with ridiculous ideas about how those products... Read More

Protectionism is at the heart of Vance’s NatCon project — and it’s a deeply unpopular policy plank that he wants to tie to the... Read More

The tech billionaire wants his SpaceX platform to purchase Boost Mobile Read More

Political pundits and politicians have spent days analyzing the 2026 midterms from every angle. But the real lesson is a simple principle... Read More

If the idea of achieving financial independence and retiring early appeals to you, the FIRE movement offers a strategy for making it happen.... Read More

Nearly two-thirds of Americans blame President Trump for higher prices at the gas pump and in the grocery aisle, citing trade policies and... Read More

Traditional gasoline-powered five-passenger sedans, once the mainstay of auto sales in the United States, are experiencing a sales... Read More

The Teamsters union has half a point: Robots are indeed coming for trucking jobs. What it misses is that they’re jobs that truckers... Read More

Why is the state promoting gambling? Read More

Voter backlash could threaten the data center boom. Some economists think that could be a good thing. Read More

Many complaints about immigration are really byproducts of state interventions elsewhere in the economy, preventing markets from responding... Read More

Investors, especially the financial press, spend a lot of time trying to explain what just happened. The problem is that this exercise is... Read More

Over the past 5 years, the exceptional US equity market generated a very healthy total return of 68%. Through the same period, a value-titled... Read More

For much of this year, on any given day, you could look at the price of oil and correctly guess what happened to bond yields. In the last few... Read More

Why a mid-life crisis is impossible to ignore. Read More

A look at how we arrive at our base-case valuation for the AI lab, along with bull and bear scenarios. Read More

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Ever since the trade war between the US and China started in 2018, the mantra of Western businesses has been to decouple from China and... Read More