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Exxon and Climate Activists Should Make Their Peace

Exxon Mobil Corp.’s management recently won a round against shareholder activists who want the company to take bolder action on climate change. But...

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Fragile Banks Won’t Make the US or Europe Stronger

Less than 15 months after the world’s most recent banking crisis, regulators in the US and Europe are already poised to roll back reforms aimed at...

previous day 9

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A Hospital Bankruptcy Offers a Cautionary Tale on Private Equity

Steward Health Care System LLC was once thought to be the future. Its chief executive officer, Ralph de la Torre, was named “health care’s new...

tuesday 8

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America’s Electronic Warriors Need a Boost

Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that precision-guided NATO munitions have been veering off course and drones are falling from the sky in Ukraine:...

03.06.2024 20

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Trump’s Conviction Is a Grim Sign for US Politics

By all appearances, the Republican Party will stick with Donald Trump after his conviction Thursday on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records...

31.05.2024 10

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Donald Trump, Felon

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31.05.2024 650

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Stablecoin Risks Grow as Congress Dithers

Congress keeps talking about regulating stablecoins but doing nothing. It’s a lapse that poses growing dangers to investors, the financial system...

30.05.2024 10

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China’s Entrepreneurs Deserve a Break

Those concerned about the health of China’s economy — which, given its size and importance to global growth, should be everyone — are hoping...

29.05.2024 20

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Biden’s EV Tariffs Will Delay an Essential Transition

Flaws in President Joe Biden’s clean-energy strategy were apparent before his latest initiative underlined the contradictions. The administration...

28.05.2024 10

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Tory Troubles Were a Long Time In the Making

Last week, when UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a general election for July 4, he very likely put an end date on his party’s long stretch of...

27.05.2024 10

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California May Break the Freight-Rail Network

It’s an abiding challenge: Faced with hard problems, policymakers demand simple solutions, details unspecified. Increasingly, this approach is...

24.05.2024 10

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A Rare Lull at the Border Gives Biden an Opening

Since the start of the year, a surprising development has taken place along the US-Mexico border: Fewer people are coming across. Encounters between...

23.05.2024 10

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Biden Doubles Down on His Student-Loans Mistake

With his signature student-loan-forgiveness plan struck down by the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden is pushing to cancel debts by other means. His...

22.05.2024 50

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Where Do Shadow Banks Get Their Money? Your Deposits

Shadow banking is back. A constellation of less-regulated intermediaries — from insurers to private investment funds — is increasingly taking on...

21.05.2024 10

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China and India Should Kick Their Coal Habit

An end to coal, the world’s dirtiest source of energy, should be in sight. In the eight years since the Paris Agreement was signed, planned new coal...

20.05.2024 20

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Glock Switches Make Shootings Deadlier

Although the sale of new machine guns has been banned since the 1980s, automatic firing is now staging a disturbing comeback, thanks to easy-to-...

17.05.2024 30

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Cooler Inflation Tells Fed That Rates Are High Enough

As the Federal Reserve struggles to make sense of a ceaseless flow of noisy statistics, it needs to keep one question front of mind: Is the current...

16.05.2024 10

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Biden and Congress Deserve Blame for the FDIC’s Scandal

Both Congress and the White House are rightly demanding change at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. after a law firm’s investigation confirmed...

15.05.2024 30

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You Won’t Like Trumponomics 2.0

Whoever wins November’s election, inflation will present them with an immediate challenge. More than two years after the Federal Reserve started...

14.05.2024 50

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What Comes After the Large Hadron Collider?

Why do particles have mass? That was a question that preoccupied the late Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs. His proposed explanation...

13.05.2024 40

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A Failure of Leadership at American Universities

Colleges have failed to strike a balance between academic freedom and free speech during this spring’s protests.

11.05.2024 40

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Stop Protecting New-Car Dealers

Americans can buy almost anything online. Why not new cars? In much of the US, would-be buyers must still visit a dealership. States protect these...

10.05.2024 20

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US Should Let Allies Help With Ship Shortage

President Joe Biden’s efforts to counter China have been most effective when they’ve enlisted allies and least productive when they’ve pandered...

09.05.2024 10

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How to Fix America’s Cruel and Unusual Tax Code

It probably escaped your attention, but the Internal Revenue Service recently piloted a program to help Americans cope with their notoriously complex...

08.05.2024 40

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To Stop Climate Change, Use the Power of Price

A barrel of oil fetches about $80 on the global market. Consider the power of that price: It has driven extensive human endeavor, trillions of dollars...

07.05.2024 40

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Applying to College Shouldn’t Be So Complicated

Although college isn’t for everyone, earning a degree still offers a pathway to success for many Americans. Yet each year, hundreds of thousands of...

03.05.2024 10

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Index Funds Need to Be Passive, Not Political

The rise of index funds has provided millions of Americans with a cheaper and more efficient way to invest. With more than $23 trillion in assets...

02.05.2024 10

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Academic Fraud Is a Waste of Taxpayer Dollars

The US government has spent $471 billion supporting academic research over the past decade. A troubling proportion of that work, recent reports...

01.05.2024 10

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Areas Left Behind Need the Right Kind of Help

One of the main themes of President Joe Biden’s approach to economic policy is “place-based” programs — bundles of measures to promote jobs...

30.04.2024 20

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Fight Climate Change With Fiscal Discipline

At the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank earlier this month, the world’s finance ministers and central bankers...

29.04.2024 30

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Are Noncompete Deals Good or Bad? Probably Both.

Noncompete agreements, in which employers place certain restrictions on departing workers, have grown pervasive in recent years, affecting almost 20%...

26.04.2024 10

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Here’s Where Europe Can Get the Money to Go Green

Europe’s goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, a crucial element of global efforts to stop climate change, will require a lot of...

25.04.2024 10

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Inflation’s Last Mile Will Test the Fed

The Federal Reserve’s difficult task suddenly looks even harder. The central bank’s goal has been to restrain demand enough to push inflation...

23.04.2024 20

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Businesses Can Wean Consumers Off High-Fee Credit Cards

Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. are two of the great American success stories. Over more than five decades, they’ve built sophisticated payment...

22.04.2024 7

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The West Needs to Make Ukraine Aid Sustainable

After months of delay, Congress is set to vote on President Biden’s $60 billion support package for Ukraine. The potential withdrawal of vital US...

19.04.2024 20

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Another House Leadership Crisis Would Serve No One

It was “an absurd notion,” “not helpful to the cause” and “not helpful to the country.” So said House Speaker Mike Johnson, after his own...

18.04.2024 7

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Biden’s EV Strategy Is Drifting Off Course

President Joe Biden deserves praise for recognizing the urgency of climate change. He has done less well adapting to setbacks and political realities....

17.04.2024 10

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Donald Trump and American Justice

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17.04.2024 60

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AI Is a Humongous Electricity Hog. That’s Great.

Next time you ask ChatGPT for a lasagna recipe, consider how much computing power you’re using: On a typical day, the AI chatbot handles an...

16.04.2024 10

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Iran’s Attack Failed. Its Threat to Peace Remains

Though largely thwarted by Israel and its allies, the assault launched by Iran against the Jewish state over the weekend was a powerful reminder that...

15.04.2024 10

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Military Aid Cannot Be Unconditional

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13.04.2024 60

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Please Take the Threat of a Fiscal Breakdown Seriously

The latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office repeat a warning made many times before: The trajectory of US government borrowing is...

11.04.2024 7

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Japan Could Be America’s New Special Relationship

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is rightly being feted in Washington this week as leader of America’s closest ally in Asia. But Japan is...

10.04.2024 40

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Government Incompetence Is Keeping Kids Out of College

President Joe Biden’s botched rollout of a revamped financial aid form reveals a stunning lack of managerial competence. It has left colleges unable...

09.04.2024 10

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Don’t Let Afghanistan Become a Terror Haven Again

Ever since the Biden administration’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, US planners have worried militant groups might again use the...

08.04.2024 30

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Help Ukraine Hold the Line

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06.04.2024 10

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The World’s Digital Backbone Needs Defending

Ever since the US Navy slashed telegraph links between Spain and Cuba during the Spanish-American War, countries have appreciated the strategic value...

05.04.2024 20

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Legal Marijuana Is Making Roads Deadlier

Marijuana legalization is killing a lot of people. Not slowly — though some studies suggest that it may be doing that, too — but quickly, in car...

04.04.2024 6

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Yet Another Troubled Bank, Still the Same Lesson

You might not have heard of Pfandbriefbank. Yet the small German mortgage lender offers a valuable cautionary tale about how global crises happen, and...

03.04.2024 6

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Health Care Is Still Too Costly for Americans

America’s approach to health care is an outlier among the world’s rich countries, and not in a good way. Extraordinarily complex and hideously...

02.04.2024 4

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