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Stephen Mihm

ARTICLES BY STEPHEN MIHM

While the significance of testing nuclear weapons dwindled over 60 years ago, the terrifying circumstances that brought that era to a close should remain top of mind (AP)

Nuclear testing: Will the US and Russia take us back to a terrifying era?

4 min read . 14 Nov 2025

The American obsession with the atom and its promise of limitless, cheap power generated a torrent of pop culture that could fairly be described as atomic kitsch.

Nuclear influencers blew up long before Boemeke

4 min read . 29 Aug 2025

Robert Solow noted that IT was everywhere except in productivity data. (Getty)

Productivity puzzle: Solow’s paradox has come to haunt AI adoption

3 min read . 29 Jun 2025

Church attendance in cities like Boston and New York struggled to reach even 17% by 1780.

America’s on-off relationship with divinity isn’t easy to track

3 min read . 23 Aug 2023

CEOs who pursue a strategy of mass layoffs are far more likely to end up receiving their own pink slip for their bungled efforts. Photo: AFP

Mass layoffs in Big Tech are an old-guard mistake

4 min read . 16 Nov 2022

4,617 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Chhattisgarh on Thursday (HT_PRINT)

How will Covid change the world?

4 min read . 04 Apr 2021

Presidents viewed as the worst are usually the ones who exit badly (Photo: AP)

The petty history of America’s presidential power handovers

3 min read . 13 Dec 2020

If metal prices exceeded the nominal or face value of the coins, the coins became more valuable as raw material for bullion, not coin.

Covid-19 leaves less change in our pockets, literally

5 min read . 20 Aug 2020

US President Donald Trump claims that steel—and many other industries—has been ‘decimated by decades of unfair trade and bad policy.’ Photo: Bloomberg

The US has squandered its steel superiority

4 min read . 08 Mar 2018

The backlash against Donald Trump’s decision to pull out the US from the Paris climate deal was ferocious, but mainly focused on his lack of concern for the catastrophic effects of climate change and not on his conviction that coal will be cheaper than renewable energy in the foreseeable future. Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP

Donald Trump’s coal bet faces Moore’s Law

4 min read . 13 Jun 2017

Photo: Bloomberg

Make America mate again

4 min read . 05 Jan 2017

Photo: Bloomberg

Why Canada is dumping gold

3 min read . 21 Mar 2016

The origins of the Saint Nicholas Bank are a bit murky. Aside from the fact that it built a safe that Bankers’ Magazine described in 1854 as “the largest in the United States, if not the world,” the new institution attracted very little notice. Photo: AFP

The New York bank that was named for Santa Claus

4 min read . 25 Dec 2015

History of junk bonds points to trouble

3 min read . 23 Dec 2015

In 1929, when the US and every other major nation pegged their currencies to gold, China alone operated under a silver standard in which the currency was pegged to a specific weight of that metal.

How the silver standard wrecked China’s economy

4 min read . 26 Aug 2015

Baron Alexandre Lamfalussy, a brilliant economist, was the first president of the European Monetary Institute, the forerunner of the ECB. Photo: AFP

Father of ‘euro’ knew it was a problem child

3 min read . 15 May 2015