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The Conversation - Business

SpaceX raised $75B in record IPO – here's why insiders like Elon Musk are much likelier than public stock buyers to get rocket-powered returns these days - Brad Badertscher, University of Notre Dame

6 hours ago

The Social Security trust fund will run dry in 2032 – what that means for retirees and workers who hope to retire -- John W. Diamond, Rice University

2 days ago

How businesses with ties to Jeffrey Epstein saw norms – and even share prices – suffer -- Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis

2 days ago

Getting disability benefits got harder after the Social Security Administration's staff was slashed and program rules were changed by Trump -- Katie Savin, California State University, Sacramento; Callie Freitag, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Matthew Borus, Binghamton University, State University of New York

10 days ago

US mortgage rates are staying high – and the Fed can do very little about it -- Michael J. Highfield, Mississippi College; Mississippi State University

6 days ago

New SNAP rules requiring that benefits be used at stores selling healthier food could backfire -- Benjamin Chrisinger, Tufts University

23 days ago

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4 months ago

Emerging Houthi–Al-Shabaab co-operation and the growing threat to Red Sea shipping -- Brendon Novel, Université de Montréal

9 days ago

What's in the price of a gallon of gas? -- Robert I. Harris, Georgia Institute of Technology

1 month ago

War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what's happening in each country tells a harder story -- Ezgi Canpolat, Harvard University

2 months ago

UAE's OPEC exit has been long in the works – and may mark the beginning of a Gulf realignment -- Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University

1 month ago

Global supply chains cause environmental harm, but they can help repair it too -- Minelle Silva, University of Manitoba; Jia Yen Lai, Monash University, and Lee Matthews, University of Nottingham

1 month ago

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2 months ago

When private equity firms buy mobile home parks, rent increases leave residents with few affordable options in rural areas -- Erin Gaede, University of Wisconsin-Madison

8 days ago

Food aid doesn't make people loafers – research shows government benefits help low-income people find jobs -- Claudia Strauss, Pitzer College

2 months ago

When ICE ramped up enforcement, US-born workers didn't see any economic gains -- Chloe N. East, University of Colorado Boulder and Elizabeth Cox, University of Colorado Boulder

9 days ago

Why Kevin Warsh might still prove to be an independent Federal Reserve chair -- Cristina Bodea, Michigan State University and Andrew Kerner, Michigan State University

29 days ago

It's not just high gas prices – inflation is now spreading through the US economy -- D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State University

14 days ago

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

You've been trying to get around Amazon – but it's not that easy -- Yuanyuan (Gina) Cui, Coastal Carolina University and Patrick van Esch, Coastal Carolina University

17 days ago

Clinical trials that are actually marketing ploys targeting doctors – how seeding trials put profit over patients -- Sukhun Kang, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ivan Lin, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Sungyong Chang, Cornell University

1 month ago

AI data center boom is leaving consumer electronics short of chips − even though they don't use the same kinds -- Vidya Mani, University of Virginia; Cornell University

1 month ago

Perseverance doesn't always pay off for companies – sometimes it's better to 'fail fast' -- Scott Friend, University of Dayton and Kumar Rakesh Ranjan, EDHEC Business School

1 month ago

Companies are hyping AI the same way they talked up sustainability, but there are ways to fix that -- Suvrat Dhanorkar, Georgia Institute of Technology

23 days ago

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1 year ago

Hybrid work is not always the golden compromise employees expect – even as more companies implement it -- Radostina Purvanova, Drake University and Alanah Mitchell, Drake University

6 days ago

So your new 'co-worker' is an AI agent – here's how to make the best of your human-machine relationship -- Nigel Melville, University of Michigan

1 month ago

For the nearly 1 in 4 US adults with chronic pain, employers' expectations of a healthy body can lead to shame -- Beth Schinoff, University of Delaware and Elana Feldman, UMass Lowell

2 months ago

How employers can support workers when they take medical leave -- Liza Barnes, Drexel University; Ashley Hardin, Washington University in St. Louis, and Christina Lacerenza, University of Colorado Boulder

21 days ago

Workplace relief is coming for employees with symptoms of menstruation, perimenopause and menopause in Philly -- Ann Juliano, Villanova University

2 months ago

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1 year ago

Your bank's AI just blocked your payment – what can you do? -- Pragati Awasthi, Drexel University

14 days ago

What oil, stocks and bonds are telling us about the Iran conflict and how long it might last -- Daniele D'Alvia, Queen Mary University of London

3 months ago

How personal finance advice is getting political, thanks to 'finfluencers' -- Maximilian Brichta, University of Virginia

1 month ago

How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets -- Parker Bach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2 months ago

International aid groups are dealing with the pain of slashed USAID funding by cutting staff, localizing and coordinating better -- Sarah Stroup, Middlebury College and Jennifer Hadden, Brown University

4 months ago

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1 year ago

America's nonprofit sector is pushing back against an 'authoritarian playbook' -- Christopher Justin Einolf, Northern Illinois University

17 days ago

Nonprofit fraud: Amid high-profile prosecutions, an accountant explains what's really going on -- Sarah Webber, University of Dayton

21 days ago

Why Americans give: New research finds 5 distinct profiles for generosity -- George E. Mitchell, Baruch College, CUNY

2 months ago

Trump administration's indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center breaks with norms – and may lack evidence of criminal wrongdoing -- Beth Gazley, Indiana University

1 month ago

Getting $750 a month didn't end homelessness – but our study shows it still improved the lives of homeless people -- Benjamin F. Henwood, University of Southern California

2 months ago

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1 year ago

What happens to debt when someone dies? -- James Malm, College of Charleston

10 days ago

Why Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, won't stop 'til she gets enough from his estate -- Reid Kress Weisbord, Rutgers University - Newark and Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia

2 months ago