‘I’m in my peak earning years’: I’m working beyond 70. Will that help increase my Social Security?

Thursday, May 29, 2025 A New Nuclear Waste Cleanup Plan Could Save Billions For decades, the Department of Energy has been working to clean up dangerous nuclear waste left behind by U.S. nuclear weapons production and energy research. But finding space to dispose of this waste is an obstacle. We’ll get an update on DOE’s…

Prospective merger simulations are a commonly used tool in industrial organization and antitrust, but evidence about their accuracy and predictive ability is limited. We study 101 mergers in consumer packaged goods and compare the realizations of price changes with predictions from merger simulations. In our sample of consummated mergers, predicted price changes from merger simulations…

The Pentagon submitted what appears to be the first part of a request for mid-year movement of funds among accounts to Congress, typically called an omnibus reprogramming. These requests carry out fact-of-life changes that always occur during the year of execution, but also realign funds into accounts that are running short due to a variety…

Interview with Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Ricardo Jesus Silva on 29 June 2026 13 July 2026 The European Parliament gave the digital euro the green light last week. Do any major hurdles still remain or is the way clear for the project to be implemented? There are…

Sometimes the great verities are pretty straightforward. For example, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop,” an observation made famous by economist Herb Stein. Let’s stick with that one, given its sensible application to the Trump administration’s current quasi-licensing regime for frontier AI models. The effort has proven to be a vibey, ad…