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The Fatal Crash That Plunged Doris Duke Into Scandal

Dark Capital is a series that explores the intersection of business, wealth and crime

21 октября 2019 6 мин. 9203

Google Aims To Pitch Privacy With The New Pixel 4 And Other Increasingly Smart Devices

As Google’s latest line of hardware products promise to more seamlessly be a part of users’ lives, the data-driven giant wants to earn trust for the brand even as it collects increasingly more, and more personal, information

18 октября 2019 6 мин. 7341

The World’s Most Reputable Countries 2019

If you were given the choice between a two-week vacation in New Zealand and one in Iran, which would you choose?

17 октября 2019 7 мин. 21714

The Hooligan Spirit

NEW YORK – The late Alan Clark, a British politician of the Margaret Thatcher era, chiefly known for his womanizing and his hard-right views, once lamented to me the decline of the British fighting spirit that built empires and won wars. Half in jest, I suggested that this aggressive disposition was still there among British soccer hooligans who ransack stadiums and foreign towns. He replied with a dreamy look in his eyes that this was indeed something that “might be usefully tapped.”

16 октября 2019 5 мин. 10504

America’s Richest Women

The women on The Forbes 400 are worth a record combined amount this year

15 октября 2019 6 мин. 9034

Our Shrinking Economic Toolkits

NEW DELHI – In the natural world, humans stand out for the complexity of the tools, technologies, and institutions that we have developed. According to the anthropologist Joseph Henrich, we owe this success to our ability to accumulate, share, and adapt cultural information across generations. But just as interconnection causes our “collective brains” to expand over time, isolation can cause them to shrink. Economists should take note

14 октября 2019 4 мин. 9781

Half of Americans Expect a Major Recession Soon, New Survey Shows

Market volatility didn’t take a vacation this summer

11 октября 2019 2 мин. 12786

China’s 70 Years of Progress

BEIJING – The celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1 will be an exuberant affair, involving glitzy cultural events, an extravagant state dinner attended by Chinese and foreign luminaries, and a grand military parade in Tiananmen Square. And, at a time of high tensions with US President Donald Trump’s administration, it will be imbued with an extra dose of patriotic enthusiasm. But while China has much to celebrate, it also has much work to do