Investment

How the U.S. Can Maintain Its Edge in the Global Tech Race
Editor’s note: In February, The National Interest organized a symposium on the U.S.-China technology race amidst the emergence of DeepSeek and ongoing legal battles over TikTok. We asked a variety of experts the following...

Three Policies That Will Make or Break U.S. Tech Competition with China
Editor’s note: In February, The National Interest organized a symposium on the U.S.-China technology race amidst the emergence of DeepSeek and ongoing legal battles over TikTok. We asked a variety of experts the following...

An Entrepreneurial Development Bank? The Inter-American Development Bank Shows the Way
There is no love lost between the public and development banks. While these multilateral institutions with a global scope, such as the World Bank or regional ones like the Asian...

Why Does India Care So Much about Guyanese Oil?
In January 2023, Guyanaese president Irfaan Ali visited India, meeting Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. The two leaders discussed a broad range of economic opportunities, but the major topic was...

Glitches in the System: A Call for Transformational Change in the U.S. Nuclear Community
Institutional investment in individuals and their ideas not only encourages diversity and inclusion but will result in transformational change in all aspects of the nuclear community. In this week’s episode...

Joe Biden’s Massive Victory: What Is Actually in the Infrastructure Bill?
On Monday, President Joe Biden is expected to sign one of the more significant pieces of legislation of his presidency, the infrastructure bill that was passed by bipartisan majorities in...

Smart Investment: Buying Bitcoin Could Have Turned Stimulus Check Into $11,000
Over the past year and a half amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Congress has green-lighted the delivery of three stimulus payments to most eligible Americans—a $1,200 check in the spring...

Bill Gates: Climate Investing Is the New Tesla
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates sees huge opportunities in climate investing—and even hinted that the returns over the decades could mirror what big tech companies have produced in recent years. “There...

Never Fall Into This Social Security Trap
Here’s What You Need to Know: Many Americans mistakenly believe that their Social Security benefits will go up automatically when they reach full retirement age. After years upon years of pumping...

Could Privatizing Social Security Save the System from Collapse?
Here’s What You Need to Remember: A model for such privatization could be Norway’s investment fund, which has invested roughly $1 trillion in private assets, mostly stocks, around the world....

Could Social Security Be Privatized? Here’s the Argument
The Social Security Administration is running out of money. The agency’s trust fund, which provides for the payment of retirement benefits to tens of millions of Americans, is slowly losing...

Surprise: One-Third of Americans Invested Their Stimulus Check Money
Here’s What You Need to Remember: In terms of investments, people do have, about a third have individual stocks, a quarter owns mutual funds, twelve percent own bonds, and ten...