The upcoming SpaceX IPO will make investing in index funds for retirement worse, while Musk and friends rake in millions.
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The upcoming SpaceX IPO will make investing in index funds for retirement worse, while Musk and friends rake in millions.
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Democrats finally show up to the class war.
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Health care affordability depends on access to care and the true cost of care, not just insurance premiums.
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So far, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has not led to a major economic disaster. That won’t last forever.
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The only truly passionate players in today’s election appear to be the corporate moguls funding the anti–Tom Steyer campaigns.
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Monopoly power has penetrated nearly every sector of commerce.
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Progressive economics has swept the Democratic base, but the jungle primary has kept it from emerging in force in this crucial contest.
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The ethnonationalist strategy for white replenishment won’t work.
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Sen. Chris Murphy has a sense of what ails America, and he wants to restore its spiritual core.
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Even if progressive Andy Burnham becomes the next British prime minister, will global hyper-capitalism allow him to succeed?
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Does anyone he encounters dare to dispute his delusions?
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In the low-profile race for California insurance commissioner, Jane Kim wants to borrow from other countries to solve a crisis in the homeowner’s insurance market.
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The American people have been led astray about what climate change means for their pocketbooks.
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Buoyed by billions in assistance from the state, real talk about what it takes to run New York City, and some taxes on the rich, the mayor closed a historic leftover budget deficit.
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Rahm Emanuel is back, running for president as a corporate Democrat. His timing is terrible.
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Rumen Radev's new government pledges to tackle soaring prices by forcing large retailers to prove sudden rises are economically justified – not rooted in speculation.
These individual newsletters are a whole new genre. At their best, they have breathed new life into journalism and public discourse.
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The Milken Conference in Los Angeles is designed for the global financial elite. Their thinking about the Iran war is childish.
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Ilie Bolojan's pro-European cabinet has been toppled by a successful no-confidence motion, raising concerns about renewed political and economic instability.
Spirit Airlines’ demise can be directly traced to the rise in jet fuel prices. That hasn’t stopped corporate Democrats from blaming Biden-era merger policy.
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Given the upward redistribution of wealth and income, it now pays a company to sell just to the rich.
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Plus: Why Iran won’t make a deal with Trump to end the crisis
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America is selling the AI stack it built with public money, with the same companies and the same national security framing. Nobody is asking whether the demand is real.
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A refinery oligopoly and exclusive contracts allow the oil industry to price-gouge California drivers.
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The proposed bailout of Spirit Airlines is Trump’s worst deal yet. But in clean hands, socialized ownership sometimes makes sense.
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Putting a market price on some prediction does not make it a ‘truth machine.’
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99 percent of the company’s institutional shareholders voted to approve it. An equivalent share of the company’s workers and Hollywood generally opposed it.
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Rs 10,000 crore corpus to be channelled through AIFs with focus on private capital mobilisation, deep tech, and early-stage ecosystem support.
There are at least 76,000 supermarkets in the United States. Most of us probably have a dozen within 10 miles of home. Nevertheless, leftists are constantly trying to convince us that we need government-run grocery stores. The latest person is New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has promised to open five city-run markets to...
The Fed chair has been an enabler of the economy’s hyper-financialization and speculative excess. Resistance to Trump is too low a bar.
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