Oscar Wilde – who bought Morris wallpapers – wondered what such ideals meant to ... You could argue that its ornately, at times illegibly, typeset books defied capitalism’s demands for quick print, ...

While shareholders in SVB were deservedly wiped out and management let go, large depositors enjoyed riskless capitalism as the government changed the rules to benefit them. A haircut could have been ...

If capitalism had been overthrown as quickly as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels had at first expected, John Cassidy’s sprawling “Capitalism and Its Critics” would have been shorter and easier ...

Navigating the marketplace is the original choose-your-own adventure. Thrilling Tales of Modern Capitalism takes a company in the news, and looks at its history to figure out why it finds itself ...

“Tariffs open the doors to crony capitalism. The government starts to pick winners and losers,” Citadel founder Ken Griffin told POLITICO at the Beverly Hilton during the Milken Institute’s ...

Warren Buffett, at the 2025 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, shared a vivid and layered analogy for American capitalism, likening it to a “cathedral attached to a casino.” In his eyes ...

The summer is upon us, or at least the season will officially be here by the end of the month. With the days getting longer, you might be spending more time outside being active and enjoying the ...

If there is an acceptable face of American capitalism, many people would say that it’s Buffett. Veblen probably wouldn’t have thought much of Buffett, who built his fortune by studying the ...

The end of the Cold War made clear the triumph of capitalism over other economic systems. But in the decades since, the modern form of American-style capitalism has been showing some cracks.

Join us for this lecture at which John Cassidy will speak about his new book, Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World. At a time when we are faced with fundamental questions ...

Buffett’s vast experience and success have made him a folk hero, and people look up to his homespun wisdom ...