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It is part of the healthy functioning of capitalism that some previously great companies and industries vanish under the waves. We...

i'd say it is the purchasing power of the paycheck that matters if the paycheck grows faster no one is going to be bothered by 2-3%...

The Panic of 1893 gave us a 25% unemployment rate. In contrast the Great Recession of 2007-08 saw it top out at 10%. I'd say the...

the price of everything has fallen relative to the price of gold do we want to subject ourselves to that...history suggests otherwise...

Some house price indexes (like the Case-Shiller Index and FHFA House Price Index) try in various ways to control for those things...

As you have documented California and San Francisco have serious problems, many self-inflicted. I'm glad they are addressing some of...

https://www.newsweek.com/san-francisco-crime-new-mayor-comeback-2067442 It was pretty nice when I visited in May.

There is one obvious reason that the tech industry’s ground zero for big ideas has moved north from Silicon Valley to San Francisco...

The venture firm Thrive Capital is in talks to buy shares in OpenAI at a $500 billion valuation, people familiar with the matter said...

Lest we forget:

The correct graph would look at something like median house price to median income ratio. That ratio has gone up from 3.5 in 1985 to...

The thing I find interesting is that the revisions are positively serially correlated. Very strongly so. Which should be taken into...

Seven years of investigation by scientists at Harvard Medical School has revealed that the loss of the metal lithium plays a powerful...

Actually not quite. Trade deficit during first six months of the year: 2025 $583 billion 2024 $421 billion 2023 $399 billion Fire...