When you look at AI, right now, it has one major use case that people are really willing to pay for: coding. That means Cursor and, to a lesser extent, Replit. Let’s take Cursor as an example: it is built on top of other companys AI. This is a problem, because Cursor doesn’t have a […]
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More daycare options at a variety of price points, all of them unaffordable.
A super accessible subway station with an elevator that will get you all the way down to the mezzanine. The tracks are just two flights of stairs below that.
Playgrounds that are so packed you’ll wait in the bathroom line for forty-five minutes. That’s how much kids love our jungle gyms. Please bring your own toilet paper.
Restaurants with kid-friendly meals that considerately still charge adult prices, so you get both experiences. Bet you’ve never tried twenty-four-dollar buttered noodles before.
Completely adequate public schools. As in, most of the kids are vaccinated.
Enough minivans with “honors student” bumper stickers that you can be confident that Harvard recruiters will visit every fall. Saves you a trip. Your child is two, but still.
A booming waiting room at the pediatrician’s office. This is a great way for your child to make friends and also get the flu. Immunity Power!
All the city’s best retail stores: Macy’s, H&M, Target, Ann Taylor. Uniqlo, another Target.
Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867) Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) Joseph Schumpeter, The Theory of Economic Development (1911) Nikolai Kondratiev, The Major Economic Cycles (1925) Gunnar Myrdal, The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory (1930) John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory (1936) Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (1944) Paul […]
An economic theory that does not go beyond proving theorems and conditional ‘if-then’ statements — and does not make assertions and put forward hypotheses about real-world individuals and institutions — is of little consequence for anyone wanting to use theories to better understand, explain or predict real-world phenomena. Building theories and models on patently ridiculous […]
The little-known painter who found beauty in bugs, transforming pests into wondrous creatures and works of art
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Self-control, grit, growth mindset – trendy skills won’t transform children’s lives, but more meaningful interventions can
- by Tyler W Watts
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Pay talks are set to resume after a five-day walkout ended last Wednesday. Maira Rana does the math in defence of the strike
Last Friday (August 1, 2025), the US Bureau of Labor Statistics published their latest – Employment Situation Summary – for July 2025. What followed was somewhat extraordinary. The data and the revisions to the previous two months data releases (which is standard practice) showed that the US labour market is in decline. It starkly runs…
President Trump could bail out private equity companies — by letting them loot your retirement plan.
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