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An era of growth-at-all-costs ended quietly. The companies being built in its place have a different shape — and a different theory of what a business is for.
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The Strait of Hormuz crisis exposed how fragile global oil routes really are. Five lessons from a 60-day deal that left the toll question unsettled.
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Publishers have spent two years treating AI as a legal threat. The smarter ones are starting to treat it as a revenue question instead.
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SpaceX rose 4% Tuesday, pushing its market cap above Amazon and briefly past Microsoft, days after the biggest IPO ever. The numbers behind the rally.
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The influencer era promised easy money and viral fame. What it quietly became is something older and sturdier: people running actual companies of one.
BusinessWhy Some Trade Unions Survive Industry Decline
When an industry collapses, its union doesn't have to. Here's what separates the ones that adapt from the ones that disappear with the furnaces.
BusinessWhy Geography Sets Your Country's Wage Ceiling
Where a country sits in global supply chains shapes how much its workers can earn. Here's the concrete mechanism most economics writing skips.
BusinessEnergy Markets Brace After US-Iran Hormuz Deal
Oil fell and stocks rallied after Washington and Tehran agreed to halt their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But the deal isn't signed yet.
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Germany's apprenticeship system is the envy of the world. Here's why copying it keeps failing, and what actually makes it work.
BusinessWhat Sabbatical Policies Reveal About Who Firms Fear Losing
Sabbatical policies aren't a perk. They're a map of exactly which employees a company believes it cannot afford to lose. Here's how to read one.
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Performance review systems reliably produce cultures their designers never wanted. Here's the specific mechanism, and why good intentions aren't enough.
BusinessWhy the Standard Working Week Is a Political Decision
The 40-hour week wasn't handed down by economists. Here's how political pressure, not productivity data, set the clock most workers live by.