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Author of The Wisdom of Crowds. Editor at The Yale Review. Contributing writer for The Atlantic. I wrote The Financial Page for The New Yorker.
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How an Old Shipping Law Raises Consumer Prices

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By James Surowiecki Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
Donald Trump is the most protectionist president America has seen in more than a century. So it’s odd that a consequence of his war on Iran has been the waiving of one of the most protectionist pieces of legislation on the books: the Jones Act. Passed in 1920, the Jones Act requires that all shipments by water within the United States, including by ocean, be made on ships that are built in America, owned by American companies, and crewed by American mariners.
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The Year of the Humongous IPO

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By James Surowiecki Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
This is the year of the giga-IPO. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s aerospace and artificial-intelligence company, raised a record $75 billion in capital when it went public earlier this month, instantly becoming one of the 10 most valuable companies in the world. The AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI, meanwhile, both recently filed to go public later this year, ensuring that in a matter of months, we will likely witness the three biggest IPOs in history. These massive IPOs are outliers in other ways too.
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When the President Takes a Cut

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By James Surowiecki Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
When it comes to the government’s relationship with business, Donald Trump is the most activist president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. He has wielded tariffs, the government’s purchasing power, and the threat of regulatory action to bend companies to his will. Over the past year, the president has even made the federal government a corporate shareholder across a range of industries.
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