Homebuilders thought last year was going to bring a boom. They were wrong. Single-family construction starts for 2025 — a crucial measure of how many new homes are being built — are expected to come ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

President Donald Trump made a lot of tariff threats and trade promises this year. Many materialized into a barrage of new import taxes that overturned decades of U.S. economic policy — but others have ...

The market seems to be content, for now at least, to keep betting big on AI. While the value of some companies integral to the AI boom like Nvidia, Oracle and Coreweave have seen their value fall ...

The Federal Reserve is meeting for the first time this year on Jan 27 and 28, 2026, but expectations for a rate cut are low. After the December 2025 job report showed slower job growth, lower ...

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Macroeconomic cycles are often defined by the environments in which certain assets tend to perform best. For example, real assets such as commodities and natural resource stocks have historically held ...

As a Black girl growing up in a segregated St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1950s and early ’60s, I adopted the prevailing story about our country. Nobody ever sat me down and laid it out. Rather, it was ...

Aluminium (Al) batteries offer clear advantages over conventional batteries owing to their use of abundant and sustainable materials, but they currently rely on electrolytes that are usually corrosive ...