Work in Progress
Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy.
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Illustration by The Atlantic ‘We Would Be Entering a Completely Different World’
What happens if oil hits $200 a barrel?
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Illustration by Alisa Gao / The Atlantic The Real Reason California Can’t Build
In trying to accomplish every objective and accommodate every interest, all at once, the state set up its housing agenda to fail.
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Francis Chung / Bloomberg / Getty The One Tiny Problem With Trump’s Affordability Agenda
His proposals to lower prices are all more likely to raise them.
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Tierney L. Cross / Bloomberg / Getty Trump’s Fed-Chair Pick Is an Interest-Rate Hawk—Or Is He?
Kevin Warsh’s views on monetary policy may be shaped less by real economic conditions than by whether a Democrat or Republican is in power.
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Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Sources: … If You Tax Them, Will They Leave?
A California wealth-tax proposal makes a high-stakes bet on billionaire psychology.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Joe Raedle / … Big Oil Knows That Trump’s Venezuela Plans Are Delusional
The president’s thinking is stuck in the 1980s.
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Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA / Bloomberg / … A Horseshoe Theory of Trump
His economic approach combines libertarianism and authoritarianism.
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Illustration by The Atlantic The Three-Step Guide to Fixing Affordability
First, stop making things worse.
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Nathan Howard / Bloomberg / Getty How Private Equity Is Changing Housing
In some communities, corporations control more than 20 percent of properties.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Anna Moneymaker / … Donald Trump’s War on Christmas
It’s a bad year for shoppers. It’s a terrible year for small-business owners.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic The Age of De-Skilling
Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?
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Illustration by The Atlantic: Source: Shutterstock. The ‘Anti-Woke’ Tax That All Americans Are Paying
Better broke than woke, right?
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic How Are We Still Fighting About Obamacare?
The ACA worked, but nobody seems to know it.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Americans Are About to Feel the Government Shutdown
Airport delays and IRS closures are just the beginning.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Everything Recession
First Washington, then the nation?
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Illustration by Jan Buchczik If I Work Harder, Will You Love Me?
The tragedy of workaholism is the false belief that you can trade toil for affection. Knowing that is the first step to recovery.
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Michael M. Santiago / Getty Trump Is Getting Closer to Having an ‘Infinite Money Pit’
If the president takes over the Federal Reserve, he will have extraordinary power to reward his friends and destroy his enemies.
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Illustration by Jonelle Afurong / The Atlantic. Sources: … The Job Market Is Hell
Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Sean Gladwell / … Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.
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Illustration by Niv Bavarsky for The Atlantic AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
