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Some people think the US has become an extraction economy, whereas China, has become a creation economy. Many of the things we fund right now are completely killing us. We need strategic investments in creation over extraction while acknowledging that the attention economy is a part of that.
Amazon Prime Day 2025: What’s Worth Buying and What to Skip, According to These Top 5 Deal Guides
There has never been a better time to be an individual investor than right now. We’re hitting new all-time highs every single day — lower fees, more investment options, better user interfaces, more data availability, tech that allows you to automate good decisions, etc. It’s only going to get better from here.
If somebody touts:
- A “trading strategy”
- A “missed opportunity”
- Future “trading products with an expected return rate of over $150”
- Then asks you if you “want to participate in the profit?”
Or any combo thereof – don’t just hold onto your wallet, digital or otherwise, but run the other way as fast as you possibly can because you are about to be scammed.
One of the topics that has received attention in microfinance research is the discussion of what constitutes a safe asset and whether it is in short supply. During a crisis, there is an increased demand for safe assets that are information-insensitive and serve as a means to protect wealth. One alternative is gold.
Social Security is facing a 75-year financing shortfall that currently equals 1.3 percent of GDP. And, if no action is taken before 2033, the depletion of reserves in the retirement trust fund will result in an automatic 23-percent cut in benefits. What does this mean for you?
Medicaid has become a remarkably popular program, with 83% favorability, 74% among republicans. What this suggests is that Republicans who consider Medicaid a soft target are going to be shocked by the blowback if they do manage to eviscerate this key piece of American health care.
American science soon to face its largest brain drain in history. Over the first half of 2025, the US has cut science as never before. This disaster for American science may be a gift to the rest of the world.
Speaking of which, canceled grants and slashed budgets are disproportionately affecting junior health researchers, dealing a major blow to the future of science and society in the U.S.
From small farms in California, to meat packing facilities in Nebraska to corporate giants like Disney, businesses are scrambling to replace workers after recent administration actions have taken immigrants, both legal and illegal, out of the labor force, including several hundred thousand people who had been given temporary work permits under the previous administration.
Only 1,501 US MDs in the whole country matched to one of the most critical jobs in all of healthcare (1739 applied, but the discrepancy is probably a reflection of Family Medicine being a backup option for several hundred people).
What if AI doesn’t just change the job market, but the very way our children think, connect, and grow? What if we’re raising a generation that won’t remember life without a chatbot? What happens to privacy, to identity, to the simple satisfaction of doing something the hard way?
