“For millions of Americans, getting into the market no longer means picking stocks or hiring a portfolio manager to pick them for you. It means pushing money into an index fund,” @AnnieLowrey writes:
Bibliography
Does the Stock Market Know Something We Don’t?
“The uncomfortable fact about the stock market’s historic run is that no one really knows why it’s happening—or what could bring it to an end,” Rogé Karma writes:
Why Do So Many People Think Trump Is Good? – The Atlantic
Into the Abyss: Trump’s Bizarro New Deal
From the author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.
Into the Abyss: Trump’s Bizarro New Deal
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/into-the-abyss-trumps-bizarro-new
NYTimes: The Civil War That Never Ended
The Civil War That Never Ended www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/opinion/zaakir-tameez-charles-sumner-slavery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bE8.Y-Q2.zEyzO_mmQcQq
NYTimes: The Crucial Issue of the 21st Century
The Crucial Issue of the 21st Century www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/opinion/democratic-republican-parties.html
The Birth of the Attention Economy The rise of the cheap, daily newspaper
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/07/the-birth-of-the-attention-economy/683727/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYbF3OjV6UG7_QbXeHt7KvPU
The Birth of the Attention Economy
The rise of the cheap, daily newspaper in the 19th century remade how Americans engaged with the world.
By Jake Lundberg
****** NYTimes: It Takes a ‘Very Stable Genius’ to Push the Genius Act
It Takes a ‘Very Stable Genius’ to Push the Genius Act www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/opinion/trump-crypto-genius-act-memcoin.html
A Nasty, Cynical, and Eerily Accurate Look at All-Too-Recent History
The new film “Eddington” is a nasty, cynical, and eerily accurate look at the pandemic’s early days—when there was “nowhere to turn to but the conspiratorial thinking, heated debates, and endless updates online,” writes @shirklesxp:
NYTimes: Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/opinion/smartphones-literacy-inequality-democracy.html