Let’s face it — nobody saw 2024 coming.* Especially the Left. Didn’t see 2020 coming either. Everyone just keeps getting caught with their pants down. Why? Because we guess; we pontificate; we have hypotheses about shit. What we haven’t done? Put some skin in the...
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An Island of Little Landlords
Britain’s young people no longer want to be doctors, lawyers, or engineers. They just want to collect rent. Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
Issue 58: Letters + The Internet Speaks
Send us your best stock tips. Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
Speculation in the Age of No Growth
Speculation isn’t the cause of our great stagnation — it’s how the system tries to outrun it. Illustration by Mark Pernice Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
Fruit of the Union
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Five Books on Speculation
As history and literature are quick to remind us, many a get-rich-quick scheme has ended in sorrow. Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
In Carbon We Trust
In the climate fiction novel The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson imagines a tomorrow in which an international governing body established under the Paris Agreement ensures that present-day human actions take into account their effects on future...
Minecraft Scorsese
A Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg satire of mainstream film’s IP problem — in which everything is an adaptation of something else — fails to excuse or address their own extensive IP crimes. Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to...
Wannabe Gordon Gekkos
Are you missing the point by idolizing them? Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
High Rise, Hard Times
(MPI / Getty Images) If you looked south from Central Park in New York City at any time in the last decade and knew a few things about both architectural and financial history, you would be correct to feel a certain sense of dread. The crowding of supertall “pencil...
Blue Devils
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Issue 58: Dossier
We have all the vocabulary you need to score big on your Robinhood app. Illustration by Mark Pernice Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.