The Orange Menace was asked if he was worried about the latest inflation numbers, and answered with the sort of accidental campaign ad Democrats usually have to edit together: "No, I love it. I love the inflation."
Inflation is not an abstraction when groceries, gas, flights, and everything else keep getting more expensive. — Read the rest
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Wildfires, and the costs of fighting them, are projected to increase in the western United States, particularly the Northwest, research suggests. Credit: Kari Greer, USDA Forest Service/Flickr, Public Domain
Alfalfa fields—which one of the authors (B.L.G.) grew up irrigating—flank a stream in northeastern Wyoming. Climate change is altering streamflows and the agricultural practices that depend on them in this area and across the U.S. West. Credit: Beatrice L. Gordon
Richard Vague’s new book provides an interesting look at the economic history of the early U.S. but fails as a biography.
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Her viral video eventually made it back to the company who designed the bag.
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Globally, central banks now hold 27% of their reserve assets in gold, surpassing US dollar Treasuries at 22%, and just a year ago this was 20% gold versus 25% Treasuries, according to the latest report by the European Central Bank. In 2023, gold’s share was just 16%. Since the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022, China has […]
By Nandita Lal
On June 2 the Institute on Religion & Democracy hosted Jordan Ballor and Erik Matson for a talk about their new book _A History of Christian Political Economy_. The event was a kick-off of IRD’s new Christians for Capitalism program.
Ballor serves as executive director of the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy at First Liberty Institute. Matson is the Gibbons Fellow in Economics at The…
In _The Armchair Economist_ , Steven Landsburg makes the case that burning your own money is a form of philanthropy. Destroy a banknote, he argues, and "all surviving money slightly increases in value," so everyone else gains wealth in proportion to what they already hold. — Read the rest
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A new book shows that development is not a matter of chance, but of policy.
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British banking giant Standard Chartered could cut more than 7,500 jobs and replace them with AI and automation. More broadly, analysis from Morgan Stanley has found that UK companies that had used AI for a least a year had net losses of 8% of jobs over only the last 12 months. This was the highest […]
By James Wright
"The implications of all this are profound. First, our understanding of political risk has to change. We are no longer dealing with actors who are constrained by norms, expectations, or even basic human decency. Second, the institutional safeguards that we assumed would provide protection look increasingly fragile. If those in power are willing to ignore...
A new government in Latvia must be formed as quickly as possible, while at the same time focusing on the most important economic tasks that need to be completed before the next elections, Mārtiņš Kazāks, President of the Bank of Latvia, told journalists after meeting with prime ministerial candidate Andris Kulbergs of United List (AS). […]
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Hoover research fellow Dinsha Mistree argues that the University is responsible for the lack of opportunity to engage with contemporary Indian politics.
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These free debt calculators help you set up payment plans to get back in the black.
The alumnus, Hoover Fellow and GSB visiting scholar intends to lower interest rates as Fed chair.
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The July 1958 issue of Argosy Magazine ran "Live Now—Pay Later" by Carlton Brown, capturing the moment America gleefully abandoned its Puritan thrift hangover for installment plans.
By 1958, Brown reports, between 60 and 75 percent of new cars and half of major household appliances were being bought on time, with deferred payments hitting roughly $40 billion — nearly 13 percent of every worker's…
Host James Lindsay endeavors to explain what actually makes societies work and why totalitarian systems do a poor job of running them.
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Tucked between blown-up headshots of Broadway stars and rotating marquee lights on Manhattan’s West 44th Street is Jimmy’s Corner. Nothing but a dim neon Heineken sign illuminates the historic boxing bar’s dusty facade. The front door to the bar is hard to open on a Thursday night, revealing a scene of corporate bros clinking pints after work, regulars playing cards, and tourists grabbing a…
The Daily profiles University alumni, professors and researchers currently involved in the Trump administration.
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The Daily profiles University alumni, professors and researchers currently involved in the Trump administration.
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In this fourteenth volume of the Nazi Experiment series of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay takes us into the bottom third of the fourth chapter of Volume 1 of Hitler's Mein Kampf to show the parallels to what we face in our own day.
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It is a sign of the popularity, and logic, of socialist politics that so many workers are looking toward nationalization and public management as a solution at this moment, but there is no reason to stop with this one demand. It is the capitalist system at the root of unsafe conditions, spiraling costs, and inaccessible travel.
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As we reported, Keir Starmer recently recorded the worst approval rating of any PM since polling began. Now, a new record has been set in Starmer’s Britain – namely the price of a pint hitting £10 in London. Obviously, we can’t entirely blame Starmer for the creeping effects of inflation. What we can do, however, […]
By Willem Moore
The struggle for social justice has never been more urgent. Working people are the engine of our society. Yet, this engine is being milked to fuel a crisis of greed.
Blue Heron, Ky., is an abandoned coal mining town in which the Stearns Coal and Lumber Company operated from 1937 to 1962. The decline of the coal mining industry has brought a mix of health benefits and harms to Appalachian communities. Credit: Don Sniegowski/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0