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In 2014, Facebook dropped an eye-watering $19 billion to buy WhatsApp, an app that generated basically zero revenue and had exactly 55 employees. Wall Street…
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Because paying to accelerate global warming was standard public policy for decades. Governments historically poured massive financial support into oil and…
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When short-term debt suddenly starts paying out higher yields than long-term commitments, the mathematical alarms begin screaming. An inverted yield curve…
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Because proving your nationality is a highly lucrative state monopoly. The physical booklet costs a fraction of what governments charge citizens to acquire…
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Because buying shiny new fighter jets is universally preferred over funding public health. Nations routinely pour astronomical sums into defense budgets,…
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Instead of burying bad news in complex charts, economists created a singular, delightfully depressing metric to track societal pain. The misery index just…
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