Watch parents carrying infants and you may notice a quiet human pattern: roughly two-thirds prefer the left side, regardless of whether they are right- or left-handed. The obvious explanation is…
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Why does paying without physical cash increase the likelihood that we purchase something? Why Spending Hurts Less Without Cash Imagine buying a $75 dinner. If you hand over three crisp…
Becoming a father changes more than a man’s schedule. It can alter his hormones. Life-history theory proposes that organisms must divide limited energy between mating effort—finding and competing for partners—and…
“Quarantine” Originally Meant Exactly 40 Days Today, a quarantine can last five days, ten days, or several months. But the word originally referred to one precise period: forty days. It…
A Dominant CRM Franchise at a Reasonable Price—but Is It the Best Software Investment? Salesforce has spent more than two decades transforming itself from a cloud-based sales application into one…
Is VST the Best-Priced Way to Invest in America’s Coming Power Shortage? Artificial intelligence may be getting most of the attention, but underneath the AI boom is a much more…
A Rare Combination of Cybersecurity Growth, Profitability, Founder-Led Management—and Disciplined Expansion Cybersecurity may be one of the most durable technology investment themes of the next decade. Businesses are moving more…
The United States has a spending problem that is much larger than foreign aid. In fiscal year 2025, which ran from October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025, the federal…
Have you ever noticed that you become much more careful when you are spending your own money? Economist Milton Friedman captured this idea with a simple framework: there are essentially…