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The Atlantic
06.11.2024
How helping the poor became big business
The joint venture between a legacy giant and an EV start-up will be a fascinating test of the industry’s effort to embrace technological change.
<span>The ubiquitous rise of add-on fees and personalized pricing has turned buying stuff into a game you can’t win.</span>
America has a long history of shielding infrastructure and communication platforms from foreign control.
Somewhere along the line, the plane maker lost interest in making its own planes. Can it rediscover its engineering soul?
Corporations and private-equity funds have been rolling up smaller chains and previously independent practices.
31.10.2024
No matter who wins in November, the digital-asset market could be on the brink of a deregulation-fueled bonanza.
26.10.2024
<span>Mike Solana, a Peter Thiel protégé, has made his<span> </span></span>Pirate Wires<span><span> </span>newsletter a must-read among the anti-woke investor class—and a window into what the most powerful people in tech really think.</span>
04.10.2024
<span>In many domains, the conventional wisdom among progressives is mistaken, oversimplified, or based on wishful thinking. The economics of immigration is not one of them.</span>
03.10.2024
Many of America’s corporate executives have had enough of the remote-work experiment.
28.09.2024
Eliminating degree requirements for jobs is very popular with voters but would do almost nothing to help workers who don’t have a college diploma.
19.09.2024
America has officially defeated inflation without experiencing a recession—yet.
31.08.2024
Silicon Valley billionaires claim that antitrust enforcement hurts the little guy. Do they have a point?
30.08.2024
As weed has become easier to obtain, it has become harder to smoke.
23.08.2024
Just about every major development in the current presidential campaign started as a television event.
Kamala Harris’s proposed price-gouging ban might irritate academics, but it makes sense to everyone else.
11.08.2024
Algorithmic collusion appears to be spreading to more and more industries. And existing laws may not be equipped to stop it.
30.07.2024
Can machine-learning algorithms distinguish truth from falsehood? We’re about to find out.
21.07.2024
<span>City economies are booming, but the risk of a commercial-real-estate crash remains as real as ever.</span>
02.02.2023
Carson Block uses covert techniques to uncover fraud for profit. Now he’s under investigation himself. Is he the hero of Wall Street, or the villain?
18.10.2022
Umbilical blood can be a valuable treatment for rare diseases. But that doesn’t mean you need to pay thousands of dollars to bank your baby’s.
20.05.2022
The U.S. financial system could be on the cusp of calamity. This time, we might not be able to save it.
“I’m more than just my store,” my father told me. And yet, for nearly his entire adult life, all of his decisions had argued the opposite.
A short history of the stores that—even now—keep us supplied with an abundance of choices
Understanding America in the giant company’s shadow
The hedge fund that staged a revolt at Exxon last month is now recruiting an army of mom-and-pop investors for future battles.
After publishing an article on office jargon, we asked you for your most loathed examples.
The latest wave of the pandemic is pushing service workers to the brink.
What I learned on the line at a Dodge City slaughterhouse.
Are the new online services that allow you to buy jeans or shampoo in installments—interest-free—too good to be true?
It’s as unpleasant and awkward as you’d imagine.
Only when people align on what racist behavior looks like will we be able to take practical steps to make those behaviors costly.
The middle of a global pandemic might seem like a good time to cut back on holiday excess. But we live in America.
A very analog hobby finds a way to thrive in the digital age.
No one knows exactly how much damage the coronavirus will do to the global economy, but investors have to guess.
The surprising persistence of the mail-order business
Secret Santa gift exchanges at work make many people grinchy—for good reason.
What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back?
How retailers hide the costs of delivery—and why we’re such suckers for their ploys
Adam Neumann is out of his WeWork job, but entrepreneurs will surely imitate him.