When you are buying a dividend stock to hold for five years, the flashy growth names matter less than a simple question: Will this company still be selling its products and paying its dividend no matter what the economy does? Consumer goods companies are built for exactly that kind of durability, because people keep buying groceries…
Peter Thiel has spent 30 years arguing, on political and economic grounds, the regulatory state is the primary obstacle to technological progress. He cofounded Palantir, the surveillance and data-analytics company whose government contracts depend on minimal oversight. He was the first outside investor in Facebook, an early backer of dozens of AI companies, and the…
The town where I live in Connecticut is small – about 7,000 people, a few schools, and a single coffee shop. What we do have, in abundance, though, is farms. An apple orchard, a dairy farm, a farm known for its microgreens, and the most Christmas tree farms in the state. Which means that while…
Is Equalization Broken? Comparing Payments with GDP per Person Study beng Fri, 07/10/2026 – 12:59 Published Date July 14, 2026 Image Posted Date Fri, 07/10/2026 – 13:00 Headline Equalization is broken: In 15 of the last 25 years, one or more provinces with higher living standards (per person GDP) received equalization while a province with…
Semiconductor investors have been here before. After a scorching run, chip stocks have tumbled again, with memory names sliding more than 20% into bear market territory and the broader group shedding hundreds of billions in value. In the current artificial intelligence (AI) cycle, that kind of drop has repeatedly turned out to be a tech…
A central Florida man who has been cited for numerous traffic violations and who was once sued by State Farm in an auto accident subrogation case, has been charged with submitting more than $159,000 in fraudulent health insurance claims. Two of the claims stemmed from auto accidents, the Florida Department of Financial Services said. A…
Kevin Warsh’s testimony to Congress “offered some heat but not a lot of new light” on the outlook for interest rates, one economist said.
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Thursday, August 28, 2025 GAO Is Nonpartisan. Here’s How We Do It On this special episode of the podcast, we sit down with GAO’s Chief Quality Officer Tim Bowling to discuss how GAO protects our fact-based, nonpartisan reputation by ensuring our work is free from partisanship and bias.