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Finance

Why Stock Exchanges Want a Piece of Texas, ‘The Wall Street of the South’

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Economics

The Agony of Fiscal Defeat: Is there a better way to host a mega sporting event?

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Consumer

Feel the Burn: Why Gyms are Struggling in the Post-Pandemic World

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Healthcare

Mental Health’s Big Trip: The Emerging World of Psychedelic Therapy

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Industrials

Manufacturing Discontent: Can Tariffs Spur Domestic Reindustrialization?

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As a share of US GDP, the manufacturing sector has decreased from a nearly 25% peak in the 1950s to about 11% today.

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Personal Finance

Extra Credit: The Shifting World of Private Credit Markets

New fintech disruptors are changing the $7 trillion private credit market right before our eyes. Let’s unpack how we arrived here…

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Consumer

Sugar Rush: The Economics of the Candy Industry

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Industrials

Space Race: How Commercial Enterpise has Taken to the Stars

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Analysis

Boy, Oh Boycott: Can Canada’s ‘Buy Canadian’ Movement Actually Dent the US?

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Hedge Funds

Tale of the Tape: Warren Buffett and Cathie Wood

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Regulation

Search and Destroy: Can Anyone Crack Google’s Search Engine Monopoly?

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Markets

When the Goings Get Tough, the Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds Get Going

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Finance

Fund Shops Are Pouncing on Vanguard’s ETF-Mutual Fund Structure

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There are 53 fund shops asking permission from the SEC to tack on classes of mutual fund or ETF shares using a multi-share class structure.

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Media & Entertainment

Did Streaming Kill the Music Industry?

Music streaming services that offer more or less all the recorded music in history. So how is the industry supposed to grow?

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Technology

A Cyberattack Rattled US Car Dealerships. Which Industry is Next?

A single point of software failure can turn entire industries into teetering Jenga towers. Next time could be a lot worse.

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Markets

Weathering the Storm: A Q&A with Vanguard on Market Volatility

The last four years have been head-spinning. Dan Newhall, Vanguard’s head of portfolio solutions, talked us through the volatility.

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