Author: EconLearner
Demonstrators display the names of femicide victims during the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Bordeaux, southwestern France, on November 22, 2025. (Photo: ROMAIN PERROCHEAU / AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesOn 24 November 2025, marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women released a report looking at the issue of femicide. The report estimated that approximately 50,000 women and girls were murdered in the private sphere (by intimate partners or family members). In 2024, about 60% of all intentional…
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Generative AI is rapidly growing as a source of traffic to leading US retailers for the 2025 holiday shopping season.gettyWe’re using ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and many other AI answering engines to find gifts and goodies for the 2025 holiday season. According to new data from Adobe, AI traffic to retailers increased 830% year over year in the first part of November.We primarily use artificial intelligence to search for technology-related products, Adobe says. The top product categories that consumers search for in LLMs include toys, video games, appliances, personal care products, and electronics.Online retail shoppers using AI also buy more often,…
Private individuals bought First Bank’s assets, including the plant pictured here in Philadelphia, after it went out of business (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)Getty ImagesThe prominent national preoccupation with the Federal Reserve dump has a distinguished pedigree in American history. Maybe once, and once only, we had a reliable national bank. This did not happen in the 1820s and 1830s, when Congress chartered a second Bank of the United States and popular outrage against it rose to the level of mass public entertainment. President Andrew Jackson, in a fit of enthusiasm, killed this bank in the 1830s, just as Congress…
Canadian flag representing CanadagettyEnd of Canadian First Generation LimitIf you are one of the approx 570,000 Canadians living in the United States—either among 65,000 Canadians in California, 60,000 in Floridaor above 30,000 in states like Massachusetts, Michigan, New York or Texas—the Canadian citizenship rules that have quietly governed your family for years are about to change significantly. With the passage of Bill C-3, Canada passed the most significant update to citizenship by descent in more than a decade—one that will affect not only Canadians in America but also families moving globally from Europe to Asia and the Middle East. A…
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The House of Representatives just passed resolution condemning the “horror of socialism” by a margin of 285 to 98. All votes were denied by Democrats, indicating that a majority of members on the left side of the aisle do not recognize the overwhelming failures of socialism. So, despite the House’s clear rejection of socialism, central government planning remains a growing threat to our future prosperity.These threats include grandiose plans to nationalize our health care system to piecemeal policies that impose arbitrary price controls on key parts of the economy. Whether it’s health care or finance, price controls inevitably raise costs,…
How humans deal with AGI will likely be a heated debate, and one with potentially serious consequences.gettyIn today’s column, I address the highly controversial concern that if we can advance AI to artificial general intelligence (AGI), the worry is that humans will treat the AGI as if it were a slave. How so? Obviously we will have complete control over the AGI through the various computer servers that the AI is running on, and we will be able to pull the plug, as it were, at any time of our choosing. This threat hanging over AGI will allow us to…
In the emergency department of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, where — as in many US hospitals — patients are forced to wait for treatment in corridors due to lack of space and overcrowding. (Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images)Getty ImagesWashington’s political class continues to insist that our health care problems can be solved with more regulations, more dictates, and more red tape. The results of this command-and-control mentality speak for themselves: skyrocketing premiums, shrinking options, and an increasingly unresponsive, unaccountable, and unaffordable health care system.We don’t need more government engineering. we need more freedom. When individuals, not bureaucrats, control health…