Welcome to the award-winning Money Distilled newsletter. I’m John Stepek. Every weekday I look at the biggest stories in markets and economics, and explain what it all means for your money. Let’s step ...

Geoffrey Kabaservice on political violence and assassinations in the 1960s. Plus: Is Trump making a massive political miscalculation?

There’s an old business maxim dating to the California gold rush: it’s easier to make money selling picks and shovels to aspiring miners than to strike it rich finding gold. Artificial intelligence is ...

Deutsche Bank called it “the summer AI turned ugly.” For weeks, with every new bit of evidence that corporations were failing at AI adoption, fears of an AI bubble have intensified, fueled by the ...

Dakhla is africa’s strangest boomtown. To the many kite-surfers who visit the place, the combination of peaceful waters and brisk onshore winds makes it simply a great place to surf. But to the United ...

Henry Blodget is the CEO and EIC of Regenerator, which analyzes the tech industry. He says there are many similarities between the AI industry and the dot-com bubble. Blodget says several key ...

Palantir is capitalizing on the AI spending boom. Few companies have traded for more than 100 times sales and been a successful investment. However, its business hasn't grown significantly, and a ...

In 2008, the U.S. economy nearly collapsed under the weight of subprime mortgages — a crisis built on easy credit, government guarantees, a near-religious confidence in ever-rising home prices and a ...

Private credit refers to loans made directly by private equity firms and investment managers, as opposed to banks. And financial advisors have been banking on private credit's growth by adding more of ...

The road leading into Rocky Mountain National Park is closed on Jan. 22, 2018, in Estes Park, Colo. Due to the government shutdown, all federal facilities were closed. (Photo by Helen H.

A big increase in predictions that a bubble is about to burst actually makes it less likely that one will, contrarians say What actually seems to have changed is the number of analysts declaring that ...