Sundar Pichai, head of Google parent company Alphabet, said he sees “elements of irrationality” in the AI boom, amid concerns of a market pullback. In an interview with the BBC, Pichai called this an ...

It's Pi Day! And in honor of this year's celebration I decided to do a bit of historical research. While π—the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter—has long been known and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV waves as he leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Dec.17, 2025.

Review of Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason. By Justin E. Smith. Princeton University Press. 312 pp. $29.95. Centuries ago, the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz declared that ...

Adam Smith first coined the term "The Invisible Hand" in his important book "The Wealth of Nations." With this term he was trying to capture the idea that the marketplace would be self-regulating. The ...

On Jan. 6, 2021, a mob of United States citizens from across the country stormed the Capitol building in Washington D.C. while Congress was in session certifying the outcome of the presidential ...

Writing a Comment for this week’s magazine about the S.E.C.’s lawsuit against Goldman Sachs got me thinking again about the underlying reasons for the subprime crisis. Was it primarily driven by Wall ...

Sometimes the best investment books aren't even about investing. Dan Ariely's phenomenal new book, The Upside of Irrationality, is a perfect example. In the same fascinating style of his previous best ...

Robert Shiller’s Irrational Exuberance is probably one of the best and most important works of the past quarter-century — in economics or in any other field. In contrast I found his new book Animal ...