Two months before Black Monday, the market crash that led to the Great Depression, a Massachusetts economist named Roger Babson, fretting over a wave of mom-and-pop investors borrowing money to buy ...

In Manhattan and across the country, restaurants are trotting out ever-pricier dishes and luxury upgrades to meet the demand from affluent diners. The suckling pig at La Grande Boucherie in New York.

Big Tech’s huge investment in artificial intelligence is making investors nervous. But the technology continues to advance, buoying the bulls. By Brian O’Keefe Jensen Huang, C.E.O. of Nvidia, has seen ...

The market seems to be content, for now at least, to keep betting big on AI. While the value of some companies integral to the AI boom like Nvidia, Oracle and Coreweave have seen their value fall ...

As we limp, downcast, into the end of another year, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that 2025 has been a momentous one, perhaps even a historic turning-point year. Not just for the terrible way it ...

A terracotta figurine in the form of a pig was made in Egypt around 3000 b.c., during the Early Dynastic period. Pork accounts for more than a third of the world’s meat, making pigs among the planet’s ...

The porcine star of Lady Lollipop is back in Clever Lollipop by Dick King-Smith, illus. by Jill Barton, this time with a royal tutor who arrives to teach Princess Penelope and Johnny Skinner math and ...