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Meta’s Threads takes on Twitter
Threads logo with the Twitter logo embedded inside.

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Meta’s Threads takes on Twitter

Meta’s new social platform, Threads, is off to an impressive start, but can it continue its initial success against Twitter? Wharton’s Pinar Yildirim weighs in.

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GOP mulls retooling message as inflation rate plummets
The Hill

GOP mulls retooling message as inflation rate plummets

Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School argues that the Federal Reserve no longer needs to keep ratcheting up interest rates as “the battle is won against inflation.”

Biden’s latest student loan forgiveness scheme
The Wall Street Journal

Biden’s latest student loan forgiveness scheme

The Wharton School projects a take-up rate of 91% if borrowers seek to minimize total payments under Biden’s new student loan forgiveness plan, which would cost $471 billion over a decade.