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Anyone doubting gold’s dominant status as the world’s safe-haven asset has not been paying attention to its superior performance over its rivals. In its best performance since 1979, over the past year ...

A recent federal appellate court decision in favor of a public high school student’s online, off-campus First Amendment speech rights reins in a school’s authority to police and punish offensive ...

Against the background of the parlous state of US and Japanese public finances, there are already clear signs suggesting that next year we will see the return of the bond market vigilantes in a way ...

In this blog post, I briefly discuss its direct costs, its fairness, the fraud it engenders, and its adverse consequences for work incentives and for the cost and functioning of the health care system ...

In the days and weeks after the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, Jews around the world were horrified to find that antisemitism—once believed marginalised under the principle of “never again”—was ...

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re taking the time to look back and analyze some of the most notable developments in tech policy.

President Donald Trump played cheerleader for the US economy in a prime-time address last night. But in the end, facts on the ground will matter more than words on a teleprompter.

I have NCAR to thank for my entire career. I worked at NCAR as a FORTRAN programmer in the late 1980s while an undergraduate in mathematics at the University of Colorado, just down the hill. NCAR is ...

With the November 2026 midterm elections front and center in the minds of White House politicos, the Trump administration has conveniently announced a $12 billion increase in ad hoc government ...

President Donald Trump recently was speaking at a press event touting tech billionaire Michael Dell’s pledge of $6 billion in supplementary funding toward so-called “Trump accounts,” which already ...

For years, I thought that China’s strategy for taking Taiwan was failing. I’m not so sure anymore. China has long used coercion short of war in a bid to make Taiwan fold without a fight, while also ...