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Last week, Google parent Alphabet lost roughly $500 billion in market value in a single day—a sharp reminder that while ...

Washington has assembled a corporate portfolio worth tens of billions of dollars, and no one answers for it as a whole.

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Too bad Kamala Harris didn’t beat Donald Trump in 2024. Except Republicans will protest that Harris would have been much ...

John Kenneth Galbraith challenged the assumption that businesses merely satisfy independently determined consumer wants.

In 1989 The Economist described a Soviet bus factory whose workers took sledgehammers to newly manufactured trucks. The bus ...

From Ellendale, North Dakota, to Loudoun County, Virginia, data centers are transforming communities with billions in tax ...

The political left has made housing one of its central political issues—and has used it to win elections, for example, in New ...

Diana Thomas is a professor of economics at Creighton University and a senior fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif. Randy Simmons is a professor of economics at Utah State University ...

It has become a trope to say that there is no equity investment culture in continental Europe (at least nowhere near what we ...

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