Physicist Albert Einstein famously posited that if he only had an hour to crack a daunting problem, he'd devote 55 minutes to ...

To Knut Svanholm, Bitcoin is an agreement on a fixed set of rules that’s costlier to break than to follow. All human action is ultimately a conversation about resolving conflicts over perceived scarce ...

A review of the new book on market economics and history by Phil Gramm and Donald Boudreaux. The authors call for less government intervention in the economy ...

Hugh Cameron is Newsweek U.S. news reporter based in London, U.K. with a focus on covering American economic and business news. Hugh joined Newsweek in 2024, having worked at Alliance News Ltd where ...

Game of Thrones‘ Season 7 finale aired on this day, August 27th, back in 2017, a momentous installment that changed a lot for the show heading into its final run of episodes. “The Dragon and the Wolf” ...

Wall Street quants and leading financial academics are clashing over whether artificial intelligence has upended one of the core principles of systematic investing. Quant traders, who use rules-based ...

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Some sci-fi scenarios depict robots as cold-hearted clankers eager to manipulate human stooges. But that’s not the only possible path for artificial intelligence. Humans have evolved emotions like ...

Markets work best when many companies vie for customers’ favour. They work badly when a few firms dominate, carving up sales between them. Economists therefore need a measure of whether markets are ...

It turns out Squid Game’s most confusing creative decision wasn’t a secret plot twist – it was a post-production choice. Actor Bryan Bucco, who played one of the English-speaking VIPs in Squid Game ...