Free Press Opinion: Your fourth-grader shouldn’t be worried about AI
When I was in fourth grade, everyone in my class had grand ideas about what they wanted to be when they grew up: a…
Free Press Opinion: Houses are no longer the best place for your money
The median house price in Nantucket, Massachusetts, is nearly $4 million. It was just $500,000 in 1995. This sounds like a stunning increase in…
Free Press Opinion: The influencer economy has taken over where PR left off
Saturdays in Greenwich Village require contending with the lines. Starting at 9 a.m., you see blocks-long queues of people waiting for all sorts of things: bagels, pastries, pizza, soggy sandwiches, premium frozen yogurt with candy on it. Even if you don't want to, you will get swept up in a line.
Free Press Opinion: Why aren’t Americans working as hard as they used to?
I came across a statistic the other day that goes against the intuition of practically everyone in the U.S. who has a job: Americans are working less than they did in the 1950s and '60s. How is this possible, when we all feel chained to our desks or our phones?
Free Press Opinion: The Laffer Curve is no longer a punch line
For years it was a punch line. Now the Laffer Curve — which purports to show that tax cuts can increase revenue — is making a kind of comeback.
Free Press Opinion: Prediction markets shouldn’t be so easy to play
A great financial economist once tried to convince me that retail investors should not be allowed to buy individual stocks. I strenuously disagreed: Wasn't this America, the country that encourages risk-taking? Why shut regular investors out of the chance to get rich?
Free Press Opinion: Can Mamdani’s promises get New Yorkers to think?
France is great.
Free Press Opinion: Think the US economy is unfair? Blame the upper middle class
Billionaires are now Public Enemy No. 1 in America.
Free Press Opinion: Sorry, Elon, we should still save for retirement
Put me down as an AI optimist.
Free Press Opinion: The economy needs a little bit of unfairness
There are a lot of reasons, some deserved and some not, for Americans' distrust of institutions.
