Green Innovation Has a Glamour Problem
Los Angeles, a city notorious for endless traffic jams, is clearing some space overhead. With a vision to make electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft a reality, companies are…
Browsing Tag
economics
High inflation, housing costs force many Americans to delay needed care
At a health-screening event in Sarasota, Florida, people gathered in a parking lot and waited their turn for blood pressure or diabetes checks. The event was held in…
Your Next Landlord Could Be 100 Random People
The Soapstone is similar to other investment properties advertised by Arrived, like the Sheezy in Chattanooga, Tennessee, or the Mimosa in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The first homes to be…
Silicon Valley Will Still Need A Bank
In other words, there is a world in which people took better decisions and SVB continued to chug along quite happily. The question is: is that the world we want? One view is that it isn’t,…
The Daylight Saving Time Mess Just Won’t Go Away
On March 12, most of the US and Canada will wake up to an hour stolen. Europe will suffer the same loss two weeks later—a victim of the persistent and unpopular practice of switching to…
Startups Want to Cash In on the US Student Debt Crisis
The pause has allowed people to pay down other debts, save money, and improve credit scores. It has also brought an opportunity to take pause and question the broken economics of the US…
A Native Son of Palo Alto Thinks His Hometown Will Kill Us All
I meet Malcolm Harris, voice of millennials and anti-capitalist crusader, at a Brooklyn coffee shop, suggested by his publicist for a book-tour interview. He goes for a guava croissant along…
The rise of kitchen table economics
It is not often that a Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist gives the keynote speech at a competition policy conference. But last week in Washington, I introduced PEN America president…
UC Riverside should investigate economics research center, faculty say
Some University of California faculty members are raising the alarm about a research center affiliated with UC Riverside that they say uses corporate funding for reports “attacking proposals…