Should Facebook have the power to ban a president? Should Amazon have the power to ban the sale of a controversial book? Should Twitter have the power to permanently bar a user over a single tweet? And if not, what should the government be doing about it? — is both...
Visualizing Biden’s Budget Proposal for 2022 On April 9th, President Joe Biden released his first budget proposal plan for the 2022 fiscal year. The $1.52 trillion discretionary budget proposes boosts in funding that would help combat climate change, support disease...
Any firm that approaches $1T in value has tapped into a basic human instinct. Consuming, signalling, loving, and praying have been the fuel of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google’s ascents, respectively. That the crypto asset class universe has reached $2T reveals,...
Nearly 1.5m companies are incorporated in Delaware. How did this tiny state become a mecca for corporate activity? Take a look at any given corporation’s registration docs, and there’s a good shot you’ll see the address 1209 North Orange Street. Spanning less than a...
As the economy shut down in March of last year due to the pandemic, the Federal Reserve flooded the system with liquidity. At the same time, Congress passed a massive fiscal stimulus bill that extended Unemployment Benefits by $600 per week and sent $1200 checks...