The two Hungarian-born fantasy and sci-fi illustrators Zoltán Boros and Gábor Szikszai have been painting their dreams on book covers and designing characters for well-known game programs on monitors ...
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Dow books 4th day of gains, stocks rally after Fed minutes signal flexibility on interest rate hikes
Stocks closed higher Wednesday as investors took away a message of flexibility from the release of minutes of the early May Federal Reserve meeting about its path to higher interest rates. How did sto...
Dana Brown’s Entertaining and Insightful Memoir of Vanity Fair, ‘Dilettante.’
Upon return from a family vacation three summers ago, economist Ike Brannon remarked at a subsequent lunch about an individual at the resort who was almost literally covered in tattoos. This was an ex...
A Conversation About Black Women, Representation And Pop Culture
NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 12: Oprah Winfrey and Beyonce attend the HBO Documentary Film “Beyonce: … [+] Life Is But A Dream” New York Premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater on February...
Stefan Al’s Thoroughly Excellent ‘Supertall’
In Michael Ovitz’s very excellent 2018 memoir (review here) Who Is Michael Ovitz, the entertainment legend provided fascinating insight into why CAA was much more than a talent agency. Arguably a majo...
Tina Brown’s Very Entertaining ‘The Palace Papers’
Two days before Prince William married Kate Middleton on April 29, 2011, John Berlau published an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal hailing Middleton as “The Entrepreneur’s Princess.” In Berlau...
Dow tumbles more than 900 points Friday, Nasdaq books worst month since 2008 crash
Stocks tumbled into the closing bell Friday, with all three major equity indexes shedding more than 2.7% to end an ugly week and month on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.77% fel...
Harald Jahner’s Fascinating and Depressing ‘Aftermath’
“I spent my career as an academic studying great depressions. I can tell you from history that if we don’t act in a big way, you can expect another great depression, and this time it’s going to be far...
A 28-year-old who made $100,000 in passive income ‘in just one day’ shares 5 books that helped her get started
When people think of what it takes to start a business, words like “struggle” and “stressful” come to mind. But it was rewriting this narrative that allowed me to achieve succe...
Peter Ward’s ‘The Price of Immortality’
The late J.R. Richard was a Major League Baseball phenomenon of the 1970s for the Houston Astros. If the radar guns were accurate, no one’s fastball traveled faster than Richard’s. Where it perhaps ge...
Help Write Archie Comic Books With Palm’s Archieverse Ethereum NFTs
In brief Archie Comics and Palm NFT Studio will release the Archieverse: Eclipse NFT collection on May 16. The NFTs, minted on Ethereum scaling solution Palm, will let holders contribute ideas that co...
Giles Milton’s Fascinating ‘Checkmate In Berlin’
“During those days he stood still for such disastrous fatuities as Franklin Roosevelt’s impetuous call for unconditional surrender, a rhetorical fillip which in the analysis of some military experts m...
Jimmy Soni’s Spellbinding and Essential Story of How PayPal Came to Be
Every so often Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane reminisces about the early days of libertarianism, and in particular the make-up of the movement as gatherings began taking place. Though the lover of...
Nathan Lewis’s ‘The Magic Formula’
The economic discussion would be greatly improved if it were passably understood that what we call “the economy” isn’t some living, breathing machine that can be engineered. An “economy” is just peopl...
Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis, and Elizabeth Ames’s ‘Inflation’
The Berenstain Bears is a collection of “First Time Books” with a devoted following among young kids, along with parents who used to be young, and who used to be devoted readers of the series. The boo...
Helen Rappaport’s Fascinating ‘After the Romanovs’
In 1981, Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane traveled to the Soviet Union with his fellow co-founder, industrialist Charles Koch. Crane subsequently wrote a long-form essay about his visit that remains...
Decrypt’s Guide to the Best Books on Bitcoin and Blockchain
In 2021, crypto went more mainstream than ever before, and there’s now a growing library of books exploring Bitcoin and blockchain tech for the legions of crypto-curious. Decrypt‘s staff h...
Matthew Hennessey’s Very Enjoyable “Visible Hand”
In his endlessly excellent 1981 book The Economy In Mind, the late, great Warren Brookes told the story of an economist clearing customs at JFK Airport in the malaise-ridden, late 1970s. The official ...
Amazon To Shut 68 Physical Stores, Trading Books For Groceries And Apparel
Topline Amazon plans to shut 68 brick-and-mortar stores—including two in the U.K., all 24 of its bookstores and over 30 “4-star” stores carrying all-purpose goods—marking a shift toward groceries and ...
Sarah Jessica Parker Is Starting Book Imprint SJP Lit
Sarah Jessica Parker is launching SJP Lit with independent publisher Zando. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Sarah Jessica Parker is launching a book imprint, SJP Lit, with independent publisher Zando, repor...
‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Hardcover 10th Anniversary Edition To Be Published In April
Sourcebooks imprint Bloom Books will publish a 10th anniversary hardcover edition of international … [+] bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James on April 5, with a 20,000 limited print run....
Uber Says Ebitda Could Hit $5 Billion. Stock Drops After Halt Is Lifted.
Text size Uber’s latest forecast was in line with what Wall Street had expected/ Alastair Pike / AFP via Getty Images Uber expects to expand its gross bookings by between 22% and 25% a year thro...
Why Bitcoin accounting rules make it better to invest in ‘a stack of comic books’
Bitcoin’s (BTC-USD) arrival into the mainstream has seen companies like Microstrategy (MSTR), Block (SQ) and Tesla (TSLA) add the digital coin to their balance sheets — and spawned a new class o...
Books to Learn More About Money and Crypto
The leader in news and information on cryptocurrency, digital assets and the future of money, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set ...
‘Horror Fiction In The 20th Century’ Is A Dense But Rewarding Reference Book For Horror Nerds
The Dunning-Kruger effect refers to a counterintuitive dip in confidence as someone learns more about a particular subject — it’s triggered by their realization of how little they know, a realization ...