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Car dealerships deploy tricks and traps to make as much money as they can from you. Here's what I learned when trying to buy a new car.

In no way does the sharp decline in house prices crush the idea that owning real estate builds wealth. But, wow, Canadians have put way too much faith that owning houses and condos will bring them financial success over the long term.

When investment bankers agreed in January to underwrite the leveraged buy-out of Citrix, a software company, by a group of private-equity firms, returns on safe assets like government bonds were piffling.

Nuclear, believe it or not, is booming again. And with a serious pile of private and public funding behind them, these companies say they’re even getting closer to fusion.

A Yale professor of finance read through 50 popular finance books to see how they square with traditional economic theory.

If you had to come up with a worst-case scenario for a global food crisis, it would look a lot like what’s unfolded this year: a dangerous combination of war, drought and punishingly high prices for fertilizer, fuel and crops.

Yet when underlying inflation has been this high for this long the simplest explanation is the most obvious, no matter what happens to individual components: the economy is still overheating. The effects of generous fiscal stimulus, which stoked demand during the pandemic, linger today.

Robert Sansone with his novel synchronous reluctance motor. Society for Science Robert Sansone is a natural born engineer.

The plan is to make a lot of money as cheaply as possible.

It is rare for a multimillion-dollar company to explicitly state that its business is dying because it is simply too uncool to live.

In 2011 the American Economic Review published an influential article entitled “Growing like China”. Its authors, including Zheng Song of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, tried to explain the country’s distinctive pace and pattern of development.

The slowdown in the otherwise red-hot housing boom has been stunningly swift. The U.S. housing market surged during the pandemic as homebound people sought new places to live, boosted by record-low interest rates.

Next month is my brother’s wedding and I am so excited, but I am not looking forward to dealing with my mother’s family. More specifically, two of her sisters. For some reason, they have never been happy with my life decisions or accomplishments.

“Weak economic data and Powell’s ‘higher for longer’ speech killed the nascent Quality recovery. Value (ex CDA banks), Growth, and Momentum outperformed as pre-summer trends reasserted themselves.

Getting a package delivered is easy. Sending it back is not. Repacking, printing labels and shipping it back up to the seller is an increasingly familiar experience for online shoppers.