How Franchise Restaurants Opened the Door to the Gig Economy
When the fast food industry began booming in the 1950s, it did so via a new business model known as the franchise. This model allowed independent operators to license trademarks from a business like M...
24 Juli 0s
Why Apple Is Heading Into a Pivotal Moment
There used to be a time when the latest product release from Apple was a huge deal. But lately, it's been kind of 'meh,' and a lot of the hype in the tech world has been directed at companies doing th...
23 Juli 0s
The Creator of Claude Code on The Hottest Piece of Software in the World
2026 has been, in terms of software, the year everyone is talking about Claude Code. Indeed, Anthropic's coding agent incited a market scare — and helped usher in the era of vibe coding — through its ...
20 Juli 1h 6min
Lev Menand and Nathan Tankus on Why Fed Independence Is Now Hanging by a Thread
Last August, President Trump made the unprecedented choice of moving to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook. The administration claimed she was being terminated with cause, citing an ongoing investigation in ...
17 Juli 1h 5min
Why Soccer Analytics Works Like Volatility Arbitrage Trading
American sports fans have long been comfortable talking in the language of stats and analytics. Soccer embraced the 'moneyball' revolution later; the sport was once perceived as too complex to model a...
16 Juli 51min
NY Governor Kathy Hochul on Her One Year Data Center Moratorium
On July 14, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a one-year moratorium on new large data center projects in the state. It's the nation's first such pause at a time when anti-data center politics i...
15 Juli 42min
Why AI Might Actually Create More Work for Lawyers
It seems obvious that among the many industries that AI might disrupt, the legal profession might face some of the most adverse outcomes. When clerical, research-based tasks like searching through dat...
13 Juli 55min
The Korean Levered ETFs Shaking Markets All Around the World
Retail participation in the stock market is booming. And of course the biggest story in markets is the AI trade, which has created an incredible amount of demand for chips and memory. These two broad ...
10 Juli 43min
