FirstGroup, one of Britain’s earliest adopters of employee directors on company boards, has quietly ended the long-running practice—delivering a symbolic blow to the once-ambitious drive to give workers a greater say in corporate governance. The transport operator, which introduced employee ...
Nobel-winning economist Claudia Goldin claims that WNBA players are vastly “underpaid” relative to their male counterparts in the NBA. Economic analysis, however, tells us a different story. ...
Disney and Universal have filed a landmark lawsuit against AI image generator Midjourney, accusing the San Francisco-based company of large-scale copyright infringement and calling its tools a “bottomless pit of plagiarism”. The entertainment giants allege that Midjourney’s AI model, which ...
The UK economy shrank more sharply than expected in April, with month-on-month gross domestic product (GDP) falling by 0.3 per cent, according to official figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday. City economists had forecast a ...
Gold has officially eclipsed the euro to become the second-largest global reserve asset, according to a new report from the European Central Bank (ECB), marking a major shift in central bank strategy amid rising geopolitical tensions and concerns over traditional ...
Governments at all levels play the same game—always threatening to eliminate school buses, police departments, ambulances, garbage collection—whatever can succeed in bringing the voters or appropriation committee members to their senses and increasing taxes and spending. ...
I became interested in the question of whether a true market in healthcare can work. I think it is a fantastically interesting subject. It has been the focus of my PhD work. ...
Joe kicks off this week’s video with a multi‑timeframe deep dive into the 10‑year U.S. Treasury yield (TNX), explaining why a sideways coil just below the 5% level could be “downright scary” for equities. From there, he demonstrates precise entry/exit ...
The federal bureaucracy has been called a “headless fourth branch of government.” So long as this unchecked army of bureaucrats, technocrats, and deep-state operatives is allowed free rein, it will be impossible to make progress in limiting the state’s power ...
Governments at all levels play the same game—always threatening to eliminate school buses, police departments, ambulances, garbage collection—whatever can succeed in bringing the voters or appropriation committee members to their senses and increasing taxes and spending. ...