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The story which has pushed US tech companies to dizzying market valuations over the past two years is no longer convincing.

Today's Republicans have swallowed so many economic myths that reality has disappeared. They face a wakeup call ...

The outgoing President of the USA, standard-bearer of global capitalism, has just issued a surprising warning about what he calls the "dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ...

Why did fossil fuels win over water power in the industrial revolution? 🌍 This video explores how capitalism’s need for labor control, not cost or efficiency, drove the adoption of steam power.

a B.A. in History, and a M.S. in Environmental Policy & Management. Private property rights are central to a capitalist economy, its execution, and its legal defenses. Capitalism is built on the ...

To learn the history of a new destination ... Here, AD rounds up famous buildings from around the world that you’ll be glad you’ve seen when you look back on your travels.

They are also troubling signals of how swiftly Mr. Trump could damage our economy, long the envy of the rest of the world. To understand what might go wrong, let’s turn to the stock of the ...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, currently the world’s richest person worth more ... the biggest transfer of generational wealth in human history — hardly earned and hardly taxed, unless ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the ... The new definitions have been endorsed by more than 75 medical organizations ...

It began with slow and unreliable dial-up; today, it happens mainly through mobile broadband and Wi-Fi. Gaining access to the Internet opens the door to all the online world can provide, from shopping ...