Mounting evidence presages a change in China’s AI strategy. Ever since Premier Li Qiang proposed China’s “AI Plus” initiative in 2024, Beijing has generally treated AI as a normal technology and ...

Troubles seem to be coming to the eurozone economy not as single spies but in battalions. These troubles include an Iranian-induced energy price shock, an onslaught of Chinese exports in the form of ...

Seldom before have the stars aligned themselves as well for gold’s longer-run price outlook as they have today. It is not simply that the United States has unsustainable public finances, is losing ...

China’s Ministry of Commerce this month released its 2025 bulletin on outbound investment, and, surprise, things look good. Outbound investment climbed 11 percent past $213 billion, a new record. You ...

Congressional Democrats keep choosing lawfare over dialogue. It hasn’t worked yet. As the 2025 New York mayoral election played out, President Donald Trump blasted Zohran Mamdani as a “100% Communist ...

Using detailed revenue-cycle data, we characterize the timing of billing, claims adjudication, and insurer payments across major insurance types. We decompose payment delays into the portions ...

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” It’s a great Oscar Wilde line, one policymakers should always keep front of mind. Be ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

One of the key goals of US welfare reforms enacted a generation ago was to reduce families’ long-term dependence on benefits. It’s easy to understand why. Immediately before 1996 reforms, receipt of ...

Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...

The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental ...

In this report, we calculate effective and new-construction property tax rates for US cities and unincorporated counties using public records data for 84 million single-family homes. We then combine ...