Oil rises amid uncertainty over U.S.-Iran Strait of Hormuz deal

The European Union has expanded the AI Office in Brussels to enforce the latest regulations to be implemented as part of its AI Act The European Union has established a team responsible for monitoring artificial intelligence developers and cracking down on deepfakes and hacking as new transparency rules under the EU AI Act come into force….

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 USPS’s Financial Condition Struggles Under an Unsustainable Business Model The U.S. Postal Service is a quintessentially American institution. But during the last 20 years or so, USPS has struggled financially with rising costs and declining revenues from mail volumes. What’s the current status of USPS financial health and what’s being done…

Imagine that history made one small exception. For one evening only, time stopped separating generations. High above the noise of a packed World Cup final game, in a quiet corner of the grandstand untouched by television cameras, eight elderly gentlemen quietly took their seats. No one around them seemed to notice. The crowd had come…

The central trade-off for designing Disability Insurance (DI) is between providing insurance to those in need while maintaining incentives to work. This paper develops a novel revealed-preference approach to identify the insurance value of DI benefits. We show that comparing the DI take-up response to a change in benefits versus a change in wages identifies…

Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks next to a Vera Rubin Ultra Kyber Compute Tray and a Vera Rubin Ultra Kyber NVLink MidPlane during a keynote address at the Nvidia GTC conference in San Jose, California, US, on Monday, March 16, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia‘s next marquee product…

Introduction Over the last few years, concerns have been raised that the existing international taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government services, goods, and activities. system does not properly capture the digitalization of the economy. Under…