Capital gains vs. wealth taxes Banking

Capital gains vs. wealth taxes

Standard optimal capital tax theory abstracts from modeling asset prices, making it unsuitable for thinking about capital gains and wealth taxation. We study optimal redistributive taxation in an envi...

September 07, 2026
Emergent Ventures winners, 59th cohort Banking

Emergent Ventures winners, 59th cohort

Tym Syrytczyk, London, autonomous vehicles in the UK. Shane Regan, Long Island, 16, AI agents. Maximilian Kornstein, 15, Atlanta area, agents and general career support. Irene Chen and Jessica Dai, UC...

September 07, 2026
Insurance price sentences to ponder Banking

Insurance price sentences to ponder

NYU Stern researcher @NateWitkin questions why cyber insurance rates keep falling if AI cyber risk is accelerating: “Insurance rates for cyber risk declined by about 4% globally in Q2 of this year, an...

September 06, 2026
*Why Not Bolivia?* Investing

*Why Not Bolivia?*

The author is Calvin Korponai, and the subtitle is From Macchu Picchu into Bolivia in search of the Garden of Eden.  Bolivia is a fantastic country to visit, more original than most people are expecti...

September 06, 2026
Short Videos, Big Self-Control Problems Investing

Short Videos, Big Self-Control Problems

I study how short-form design amplifies self-control problems in digital media. Short units repeatedly renew temptation that lasts longer than each unit, turning local temptation into sustained overco...

September 05, 2026
Mein Ingeborg Bachmann Studium Economy

Mein Ingeborg Bachmann Studium

Recently I finished read Malina, by Ingeborg Bachmann, an Austrian novel published in 1971.  I was pretty stunned by how good it was (it seems less good in English), and I would say I enjoyed it more,...

September 05, 2026
Is Lichtenstein an actual monarchy? Investing

Is Lichtenstein an actual monarchy?

It seems so: Internal documents reviewed by the FT show that three days earlier, behind the walls of Vaduz Castle, Europe’s wealthiest ruling dynasty had quietly approved an overhaul that strengthens ...

September 05, 2026