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As of mid-May 2025, the U.S. economy is experiencing a complex interplay of factors. Recent easing of trade tensions, particularly with China, has led to a temporary boost in market confidence and a revision of recession forecasts.

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Retail investors are famously locked out of the startup world. Robinhood is attempting to change that by allowing the general public to invest in a portfolio of what it calls “some of the most exciting private companies operating today.” To do this, the company that pioneered the commission-free brokerage ...

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The “ratepayer protection pledge” pushes data center builders to shoulder their own power costs, but the federal government has no chance of enforcing it.

In his 1961 novel The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck wrote of loss, “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” The death of NASA’s Exploration Upper Stage today represents the inverse of that sentiment. The world of spaceflight is so much brighter ...