Two-Parent versus Single-Parent Families

The Explosive Rise of Single-Parent Families Is Not a Good Thing
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/17/opinion/single-parent-families-income-inequality-college.html

Related:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/20/married-parents-ideal-children/

 
Melissa Kearney - Interview
https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/RichmondFedOrg/publications/research/econ_focus/2023/q3/interview.pdf 

Can We Trust AI?

Why humans can’t trust AI: You don’t know how it works, what it’s going to do or whether it’ll serve your interests
https://theconversation.com/why-humans-cant-trust-ai-you-dont-know-how-it-works-what-its-going-to-do-or-whether-itll-serve-your-interests-213115 

Investors and the Housing Market

What Happens When Wall Street Buys Most of the Homes on Your Block?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/16/realestate/home-sales-north-carolina-wall-street.html 

Benefiting from Higher Rates

Rising Rates Make Big Companies Even Richer
https://www.wsj.com/economy/rising-rates-make-big-companies-even-richer-718eafce
The amount companies earn from cash in the bank is going up even as interest costs fixed during the pandemic stand still 

Higher Interest Rates Are Splitting the Economy in Two
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-24/jackson-hole-higher-interest-rates-divide-the-us-economy-housing-market
Big corporations and existing homeowners reap the benefits as smaller companies and prospective homebuyers are on the outside looking in. 

Range-Bound Equities

The Market Is Stuck Until the Fed Is Done
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/business/stock-market-federal-reserve-interest-rates.html
Stocks are mired in a holding pattern. The big question, our columnist says, is when will the Federal Reserve start to cut interest rates? 

 
Wall Street Comes to Grips with How Wrong It’s Been in 2023
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-17/wall-street-is-coming-to-grips-with-how-wrong-it-s-been-in-2023

Choice of College Major and Pay Gaps

Top 20 college degrees with the highest median salaries
https://www.bankrate.com/loans/student-loans/top-paying-college-majors-gender-gap/
78% of those who hold the 20 most lucrative college degrees are men
 
Related: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-salaries-college-degrees/
 
Most Popular U.S. Undergraduate Degrees (2011–2021)
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charted-most-popular-u-s-undergraduate-degrees-2011-2021/
 
Choice of College Major Matters
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2022/09/choice-of-college-major-matters.html 

Finance and Development: Providing Access to Power

Could a new financial model provide power for the world’s poor?