Economic Way of Thinking

Its parent company just struck a deal to stave off financial problems related to MSG Networks, but a big issue remains: the Sphere’s costs are...

Saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT has cost OpenAI "tens of millions of dollars," the company's CEO said on social media last week.

Tuition discounts haven’t worked. Nor has mostly free community college. Now, the state is trying sweepstakes to get more teens to fill out financial aid forms. Similar incentives have had mixed success.

Drone startup Zipline is delivering Walmart packages in the Dallas area.

Pawnee City, a little more than an hour southeast of Lincoln, has launched a program to reinvigorate the rural town of around 900 people.

Former Microsoft and now Amazon exec Panos Panay announced that Amazon has added the photo library feature everyone was asking for: shopping links. The image storage service’s search uses image recognition to analyze your photos and surface products it thinks you’re searching for, then pop up a lens icon over them so you can buy them on Amazon. It’s unclear from the help page whether turning off the Tag Photos feature will shut this down if you’d like to opt out -- we’ve contacted Amazon for more info. [Media: https://www.threads.net/@panospanay/post/DHwnqEFSvNq]

When $2 eggs jump to $5, suddenly $7 eggs don’t seem so crazy. Economics has a name for that.

State’s manufacturing workforce keeps shrinking

Cloudflare has a new AI-generated “honeypot.”

Independently produced by award-winning filmaker, Ben Niles, Note by Note follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand, #L1037, from forest floor to concert hall.

The devices will be used to airlift heavy, dangerous loads normally carried by mountain guides. They might even deliver a hot meal or two.

Last year, Michigan invested well over $100 million in student scholarships. Even so, the rate of high school grads going to college is still below pre-pandemic levels.

With the rise in the demand for the 4-Day Work Week, being assessed on tasks completed – not hours spent working, the message is clear: People want to work less.

The number of new babies born dropped 5% last year....

"Work hard, don't work hard—everyone gets the same. So people don't want to work," said Yan Junchang, a farmer in the village of Xiaogang who spearheaded a movement in 1978 that revolutionized China's backward economy.

Company returning production to South Carolina

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What’s eating all the profits?...

Perplexity's Super Bowl contest managed to move the needle on its app's downloads. Unlike OpenAI and Google, the AI search engine chose to forgo an

A snapshot of which sectors earn the most profit, based on the latest data. Spoiler: #1 is not Big Tech.

The retailer would need the kind of sales surprise it’s delivered only once in the past decade to keep its title as top of the top line....

Public Choice, the economist James M. Buchanan explained, is built on the “homely” proposition that politicians are just like the rest of us. We call this “behavioral symmetry.” They have their own interests, and they try to satisfy those interests. Furthermore, we can understand people’s behavior in the voting booth and the bureau using the […]

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When you're getting ready for the new school year, some loose ends take more time to tie up than others. That's why Instacart's got your back to school.

We watched 12 shows on six platforms to find out how much of your life you give up to save a few bucks each month....

A Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) run by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will likely go after crony interests in the health bureaucracy. If RFK Jr.

Don’t panic. They’re bringing that stuff you ordered....