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This economist studied 400 years of recessions. His bleak conclusion: stop trying to predict them
In the early 18th century, the American colonies suffered a depression-level economic contraction. There was no war. No financial panic.…
Gary Belsky, the former editor in chief of ESPN The Magazine, is president of Elland Road Partners, a communications consulting…
The publishers, music producers, and film directors who make up the creative economy would say yes — as would many…
This 10-year-old in California taught herself to read—now she’s just enrolled in a college class while still in elementary school
Ten-year-old Honey Cooper spends part of the day learning about fractions and the solar system as a fourth grader at…
Billionaire Marc Andreessen spends 3 hours a day listening to podcasts and audiobooks—that’s nearly an entire 24-hour day each week
If you want to think like a billionaire, you might want to stop scrolling on TikTok and pick up a…
This Harvard professor spent 8 years traveling the world researching the secret history of capitalism and how ‘marginal’ and ‘weak’ it used to be
Sven Beckert isn’t here to judge capitalism, even though he just wrote a provocative, ambitious, 1,300-page book on its history.…
Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates
As Gen Z ditch books at record levels, students are arriving to classrooms unable to complete assigned reading on par…
Netflix co-CEO says he doesn’t read business books—instead, he reads one 1902 novella about a ship and its captain ‘over and over again’
Netflix is in the midst of a high-stakes battle to acquire Warner Bros., a deal that could dramatically reshape Hollywood’s…
Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson on how he learned to ‘just keep moving forward’ after his famous firing
As CEO of The Atlantic, Nicholas Thompson oversees a venerable magazine that has recently returned to profitability after several years…
Inside the Fortune 500 CEO pressure cooker: Surviving harder than ever and requires an ‘odd combination’
Thompson, chairman of the Chief Executive Alliance and previously ranked as the world’s top CEO coach, and Loflin, Nasdaq’s Global…











