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The robotics renaissance Read More

New additions to the tracker this month include a $3.9 billion SK Hynix chip plant in West Lafayette, Indiana, and a $1.2 billion Fujifilm... Read More

Driven to distraction Read More

Strong reactions to rising prices and misunderstandings about the value of money are rampant, our columnist says. Read More

Who knew stainless steel might not be such a good idea for the exterior of an electric SUV? The entire automotive industry, that’s who. Read More

A look at the implications for expected returns. Read More

She promised investors an easy windfall. Then it all came crashing down. Read More

What the National Association of Realtors settlement means for buyers and sellers. Read More

A contrarian point of view in a world bereft of contrarians.  Read More

Fixed Income Portfolio Manager Brij Khurana breaks down the central bank's policy decisions during the pandemic and explains how they... Read More

I’m a fan of these numbers’ sidebars, but until today had never published one at my Substack Newsletter. Read More

The rush to reparations: Blue state madness. Read More

A “life and death race” has begun to unfold in the world’s largest market for electric vehicles. Many players won’t reach the finish... Read More

Free market advisers to Donald Trump are bracing for an effort by his protectionist allies to devalue the dollar, a move critics say would be... Read More

Conservative economists have long warned against raising the minimum wage. California just proved that 'greed works,' as Gordon Gekko said. Read More

Its parent company has already proven willing to monitor and manipulate American users’ data to the advantage of the Chinese Communist... Read More

April 26 is World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, an occasion to champion the protections that have resulted in countless life-saving... Read More

Earlier this month Sen. Marco Rubio (R‑Florida) took to X (formerly Twitter) to address criticisms—including from... Read More

In his 2006 book Who Really Cares, Arthur Brooks wrote of how the late Robert Byrd’s generosity with the money of others could be found... Read More

On a Friday night in March 2011, I stayed at an upscale W Hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City for $124. That hotel later became The... Read More

Here's what the research says about when to take Social Security. Read More

The Labor Department takes another stab at ensuring retirement investors’ needs come first. Read More

The S&P 500 may have rebounded since this time last week, but sentiment has continued its slide.  Read More

The busy-body food police (gestapo?) are using “climate change” as a pretext to regulate your preferences at the dinner table. Read More

The provisional number of births for the United States in 2023 was 3,591,328, down 2% from 2022. Read More

When the price of gold and the relative price of technology stocks move closely together, as they have since 2018, this has historically... Read More

Silicon Valley, purveyor of disruptive technologies, likes to think of itself as sui generis. But there’s a clear line from tech’s... Read More

You are probably not the Tiger Woods of investors. Read More

Prices move based on positioning. When investors are primarily on one side of a market, the pendulum swings to the other extreme.  Read More

Many investors are bullish, or not fearful, of the future of stock returns. At Smead Capital Management, we continue to explain to our... Read More

Among wonkish tax topics, perhaps the most controversial is the treatment of parents—depending on whether they’re single or married and... Read More

LPL Research highlights the technical setup for stocks and bonds, and explores historical market drawdowns. Read More