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If you haven’t been following the “Twitter Files” saga, the gist of it is that the US federal government routinely pressured pre-Musk Twitter, and...
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If you haven’t been following the “Twitter Files” saga, the gist of it is that the US federal government routinely pressured pre-Musk Twitter, and...
On April 23, 1985, the Coca-Cola Company made one of the biggest mistakes in American business history: it changed the formula for Coca-Cola. Outraged...
For years the North Korean playbook was obvious to the world. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea wanted to be the center of attention....
In Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It (Yale University Press, 2023), economists Liran Einav (Stanford), Amy Finkelstein (MIT),...
After the final lecture of my Fall 2022 International Economic Policy course (an undergraduate offering meant to introduce non-economics majors to the economics of...
Total housing starts fell to a 1.427 million annual rate in November from a 1.434 million pace in October, a 0.5 percent drop. From...
Entrepreneurs are transforming the way society makes and distributes valuable things. There will be (and already are) important consequences for the way we work...
Most weeks, the nonfiction bestseller lists have one or more self-improvement books promising specific techniques you can use to be healthier, more productive, happier....
America feels lost. How can we find our common ground again? In this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand sat down with Samuel Gregg,...
John Goodell studied literature at Berkeley, then got an M.F.A. at Columbia. He has edited Zyzzyva, a literary magazine in San Francisco, and been...
Dynamic pricing is receiving a lot of attention, given the media storm surrounding the recent sale of Taylor Swift’s concert tickets. Problems with pre-sale...
Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance fell by 20,000 for the week ending December 10th, coming in at 211,000. The previous week’s 231,000...
Total industrial production decreased by 0.2 percent in November after declining by 0.1 percent in October. Total industrial production is down in five of...
Total nominal retail sales and food-services spending fell 0.6 percent in November after increasing 1.3 percent in October. From a year ago, retail sales...
Freedom is a complicated idea. Since we can talk about liberty in the positive and the negative, it’s also a contradictory idea. In our...