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News
Edward C. Prescott, 81, Dies; Won Nobel for Studying Business Cycles
Edward C. Prescott, whose work explaining the economic shocks of the 1970s catalyzed new ways of thinking about fiscal and…
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Magazine
Moon Jars, Luminous and Graceful, Are Entrancing Modern Ceramists
THE TRADITIONAL KOREAN moon jar — a large, rounded vessel glazed with an opaline sheen — has been a much-celebrated…
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News
Peek Inside a $200-a-Night ‘Room’ at the World Cup in Qatar
DOHA, Qatar — After Sheng Xie, a 33-year-old soccer fan from Vancouver, booked his flight to the World Cup, he…
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News
Elon, the Mosh Pit Called. It Wants ‘Hard Core’ Back.
Have you ever gotten an email at midnight from the boss with an ominous subject line like “a fork in…
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News
A Different Kind of Kitchen-Table Economics
I’m writing this newsletter the way I do most of my writing, at home on a laptop (mounted on a…
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News
Why Are Momfluencers So Good at Worming Their Way Into Your Brain?
In some ways, the internet has been incredible for mothers. Spaces online have provided solace and connection and allowed some…
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News
As Elon Musk Cuts Costs at Twitter, Some Bills Are Going Unpaid
SAN FRANCISCO — Before Elon Musk bought Twitter last month, the company’s executives had racked up hundreds of thousands of…
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World
China Factory Fire Kills 38
A fire swept through a two-story factory in central China on Monday, killing 38 people in one of the most…
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Finance
What Elon Musk Is Doing to Twitter Is What He Did at Tesla and SpaceX
Elon Musk was sleeping at the office. He dismissed employees and executives at will. And he lamented his company was…
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Books
Kathy Acker, Drawn to the Margins, Pushed Literature’s Boundaries
EAT YOUR MIND: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker, by Jason McBride Kathy Acker — proto-punk, tough-stemmed flower,…