How Republicans Can Make the Tax Bill More Pro-Growth
They should insist on making full expensing for capital investment permanent for all businesses. Source link
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Predatory Pricing Is More Myth Than Market Threat
Basic economic ideas explain why most alleged cases of predatory pricing represent something else entirely. Source link
America Loses If Russia Wins
If America relinquishes its leadership of the free world, our economy, our security, and our future will be in peril. Source link
Never Stop Loving America
It’s a mess, but a blessed one. Source link
WPP Chief Mark Read Will Exit as Ad Industry Grapples With Massive Changes
British advertising giant WPP is hunting for a new CEO after the company announced early Monday morning that its current leader, company veteran Mark Read, would cede the reins by the end…
How to get the most out of Google’s free AI Studio
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here. Google’s AI Studio and Labs let you…
BBC Studios Kids & Family Unveils Animated Comedy-Action Series ‘Vanishing Point’ at Annecy Festival
BBC Studios Kids & Family Productions have unveiled “Vanishing Point,” a new comedy-action animation series created by Tom Gran and Martin Woolley, the BAFTA-winning writing and directing…
Singapore stocks close Monday higher ahead of US-China talks; STI up 0.1%
Local stocks rose on Monday (Jun 9), in line with gains in Asian markets on hopes that a fresh round of US-China trade talks will ease tensions. Investors also digested the latest China…
What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women?
“Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of the decade’s formative texts. Source link
Haruka Aoki’s “Nothing to See”
Animals displaying human behaviors are often the stuff of fables, intent on communicating moral lessons. But in this work, by the Japanese American poet-illustrator Haruka Aoki, a cat is,…
The Wizard Behind Hollywood’s Golden Age
How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and scale. Source link
Would Trump and Hegseth Have Protesters Be Shot? See What They’ve Said
Once we’re down the Insurrection Act road, there’s no telling where this leads. It’s not an accident, by the way, that JD Vance called what happened in L.A. an “insurrection”; labeling it…
I’ve Been RIF’d at USAID, but I Still Swear an Oath—to Democracy
(I technically still work at USAID, but with the Trump administration’s elimination of the agency, we’re counting down the days we have left. A large portion of USAID will be RIF’d, or…
American Politics Only Pretends to Work
But here’s the rub: The bill that Moore spiked was never actually about discovering new facts to lay alongside the vast mountain of already-obtained knowledge. Rather, it’s a…
Qualcomm strengthens AI portfolio with US$2.4 billion Alphawave deal
US chipmaker Qualcomm agreed to acquire Alphawave for about US$2.4 billion on Monday (Jun 9), as part of efforts to strengthen its AI technology, sending shares of the British…
DBS tops US$100 billion market value in Singapore Exchange first
DBS Group Holdings became the first listed company in Singapore to top US$100 billion in market value, helped by a softer US currency that amplified gains on the local stock market.…
Music Leaders Gather in London at Exclusive Dinner Hosted by Luminate, Music Business Worldwide
An impressive assortment of top music executives from the U.K. and around the world — plus one Grammy winning artist — came together in London last week for an exclusive cocktail reception…
How game theory explains vaccination rates and parents’ choices
When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles occur despite highly effective vaccines being available, it’s easy to conclude that parents who don’t vaccinate their…
Fox News Quietly Admits to Major Trump Failure amid Fresh DOGE Fiasco
Fox News hosts have gotten very aggressive in pinning down Trump officials over the failures of Trump’s trade agenda. Stuart Varney sharply questioned a top official over the loss of…
Banks want staff back at the office. There aren’t enough desks
Five years after the Covid pandemic fuelled an unprecedented boom in remote work, bank executives have become ever more vocal in their insistence that workers should return to the office.…
Xiaohongshu joins wave of Chinese firms releasing open-source AI models
Xiaohongshu, also known as Rednote, one of the country’s most popular social media platforms, has released an open-source large language model, joining a wave of Chinese tech firms making…
The WTA Returns to London After More Than 50 Years with British No. 1 Katie Boulter
LONDON — The start of summer in Europe doesn’t just signal the return of alfresco dining and cocktail parties, but tennis tournaments, too, including the The Queen’s Club Championships.…
Shein and Reliance reportedly aim to sell India-made clothes abroad within a year
[MUMBAI/LONDON] Fashion retailer Shein and partner Reliance Retail plan to rapidly expand their Indian supplier base and start overseas sales of India-made Shein-branded clothes within six…
Hong Kong to maintain US dollar peg despite geopolitical tensions
Hong Kong will maintain its currency peg to the US dollar, the financial hub’s leader said in an interview published on Monday (Jun 9), despite escalating geopolitical tensions and…