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Stock Investing for Babies
‘Trump Accounts’ aim to build savings for children to grow with, but it’s hard for the middle class to maximize their gains.
Peter Coy
Michael Dell: Why I’m Giving $6 Billion to America’s Kids
I started my company with $1,000. I know what a financial foundation can mean.
Michael Dell
A Fed Chair the Markets Will Love
They say the job of the Fed is to take the punch bowl away when the market gets crazy. But if Kevin Hassett replaces Jerome Powell next year, expect him…
Mark Gimein
The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poverty
The poverty line, a six-decade-old benchmark, claims to define the threshold to the middle class. The number is a lie.
Michael W. Green
Ancient Wisdom: Warren Buffett at 95
Greatness does not come about through accumulating vast amounts of money. When you help someone in any of thousands of ways, you help the world…
Warren Buffett
Why New York City Has 50,000 ‘Ghost Apartments’
Mamdani’s ‘freeze the rent’ pledge misses the real problem. The rent that landlords can charge often doesn’t cover their costs.
Matt Miller
The Scam Vigilantes
The government is failing to stop scams. So a handful of citizens have taken matters into their own hands.
Maya Sulkin
Woke Capitalism Is Out. Based Capitalism Is In.
From beef tallow fries to Tucker Carlson’s nicotine pouches, politics and business are mixing in strange new ways.
River Page
Why America’s Trains Suck—and Japan’s Don’t
A year in Japan ruined the Acela for me. Once you’ve seen real high-speed rail, Amtrak’s version feels like a parody.
Quico Toro
Inside Trump’s Crypto Cash Machine
His meme coin was the start of a crypto empire that has added billions to the president’s net worth—and left many suspicions.
Joe Nocera
Why Shutdowns Never Work
For 41 days, the Democrats demanded an extension of Obamacare subsidies and a rollback of Medicaid cuts to end the shutdown. What did they get in the…
Charles Lane
Sydney Sweeney, Inc.
Her viral response to the famous jeans ad captures the new superstar economy—where charisma trumps ideology and markets reward defiance.
Tyler Cowen
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