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Tyler Cowen: Nothing Can Stop the AI Revolution
Are you worried about an AI market crash or a company going bankrupt? Don’t be. Just as with railroads 150 years ago, nothing can stop technological…
Tyler Cowen
GiveSendGo Is a Home for the Canceled. Is It Incentivizing Hate?
GiveSendGo will back causes deemed too controversial for GoFundMe. But how far is too far?
Novi Zhukovsky
Tough Love: I Can’t Talk to My Wife About Money
‘She has always insisted on having her own bank account,’ writes a husband, whose wife has been ‘transferring money from our joint account’ without…
Abigail Shrier
Trump’s Art of the Self-Deal
There is no modern parallel for the scale and shamelessness with which the president is enriching himself in office.
The Editors
Trump’s Profiteering Is Legal, Like It or Not
Can he really get away with this? Probably.
Mene Ukueberuwa
Forget What Your Parents Told You About Money
Buying a home, chasing credentials, and eliminating debt are not always the right decisions in today’s economy.
Jill Schlesinger
‘Freeze the Rent’ Is Really About Rage and Revolution
Thursday’s decision on rent-stabilized apartments in New York City will prove that what is supposed to be a deliberative, analytical process has been…
Matt Miller
What the New AI Millionaires Are Spending It On
Tech giants SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic have either gone public or will soon. I asked the people who’ll benefit: What are you going to buy with the…
Suzy Weiss
My Week Trying to Get Rich on Prediction Markets
Joe Nocera ditched his day job and disappeared into the world of Kalshi to see why it is a booming business. It was obsessive, exhilarating, and…
Joe Nocera
Knocking on Doors for Mamdani’s Rent-Freeze Brigade
A volunteer’s ‘SOCIALISM’ bracelet was a hint that New York City’s public turnout campaign for rent-control hearings might not live up to its own rules…
Josh Code
Qatar’s Influence-Buying in America Is Even Worse Than We Thought
A new analysis concludes that Qatar has spent over $400 billion in nearly every corner of the U.S., from the defense industry to disaster relief.
Frannie Block
The Sad, Wretched Reality of New York City’s First Casino
Two days after Resorts World’s grand opening in Queens, I headed there to find out what gambling looks like in the financial capital of the world.
Will Rahn
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