An Island of Little Landlords
Britain’s young people no longer want to be doctors, lawyers, or engineers. They just want to collect rent.
Britain’s young people no longer want to be doctors, lawyers, or engineers. They just want to collect rent.
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A growing number of companies want to bankroll your lawsuit.

The top 10% of earners account for almost half of all consumer spending in the United States. Wealth concentration has made economic stability shockingly reliant on elite consumption.
University finances are structured to insulate education from the whims of politics — at the expense of students, workers, and the rest of us.

Robert Francis Prevost, the first US-born pope, embodies Catholicism’s anti-nationalist ethos. Will he follow Pope Francis in confronting the resurgence of nativism in the US and abroad?

In the second half of the 20th century, as raising taxes came to spell political suicide, states looked to a new source of revenue: lotteries.
American labor’s finances have never been stronger. And yet its horizons have never been narrower.

The history of speculation is replete with burst bubbles.

In the late 1920s, the great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein made notes for a dream project: Das Kapital, the film.
Real estate developers make massive profits off Israeli land seizures — and encourage brazen settlement building deep in the West Bank.

The mirage of Islamic banking.