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A new proposal from the Biden administration calls for a nationwide cap on Nearly everything that politicians say about taxes is at least half a lie. They are also dishonest when it comes to the national debt. Organized labor hasn't had this much public support in 50 years, and yet the percentage of Americans in a union is near a record ... Stephen Dubner appears as a guest on "Fail Better," a new podcast hosted by David Duchovny. The two of them trade stories ... The last two years have radically changed the way we When Richard Thaler first published Nudge, the world was just starting to believe in his brand of behavioral economics. In this ... It's a haphazard way of paying workers, and yet it keeps expanding. With federal tax policy shifting in a pro-tip direction, we revisit ... Major American cities continue to push the very policy that's creating a housing crisis in the first place. Got a "why" you want ... A Trump executive order is giving retail investors more access to private markets. Is that a golden opportunity — or fool's gold? It's not oil or water or plutonium — it's human hours. We've got an idea for putting them to use, and for building a more ... The pandemic may be winding down, but that The psychologist Daniel Kahneman — a Nobel laureate and the author of “Thinking, Fast and Slow” — recently died at age 90. In the U.S., there will soon be more people over 65 than there are under 18 — and it's not just lifespan that's improving, ... New York City's mayor called them “public enemy number one.” History books say they caused the Black Death — although ...