KLW Commentary

10 Years Later, Platforms Still Define the Connected Economy

10 Years Later, Platforms Still Define the Connected Economy
10 Years Later, Platforms Still Define the Connected Economy
August 27, 2025  |  Connected Economy

In 2016, David Evans and Richard Schmalensee published the Harvard Business School Press book, Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms. The book explained what...

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Tariffs. Who Really Pays.
Tariffs. Who Really Pays.
August 20, 2025  |  Economy

The U.S. middle class is more than a household income bracket. The American middle class has always been the heartbeat of the U.S. economy. The...

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Why Trust is Data’s Only Real Currency
Why Trust is Data’s Only Real Currency
August 13, 2025  |  Data & Research

Mark Twain once remarked that there are “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” A century later, the line still gets a chuckle. Not because statistics are...

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Gen Z Isn’t Different. They’re Digital by Default.
Gen Z Isn’t Different. They’re Digital by Default.
August 06, 2025  |  Consumer Insights

By the 1920s, cars and telephones had changed how people connected. Young adults could travel on their own and make plans without meeting in person....

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The New Face of Credit is the Debit Card
The New Face of Credit is the Debit Card
July 30, 2025  |  BNPL

About sixty years ago, credit cards changed shopping by solving a simple problem: they let people buy now and pay later anywhere the cards were...

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Apple’s $10B AI Crisis. 3 Bold Moves To Reinvent Its Future.
Apple’s $10B AI Crisis. 3 Bold Moves To Reinvent Its Future.
July 23, 2025  |  Apple

Maybe it was when Ruoming Pang, the executive leading Apple Intelligence, jumped ship earlier this month to Meta’s new Superintelligence Labs. Or when a leaked internal memo...

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Innovation Used to Be About Generations. Gen AI Makes It About Everyone
Innovation Used to Be About Generations. Gen AI Makes It About Everyone
July 07, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

For many Americans, saving money at the grocery store was once a Sunday evening ritual. Out came the scissors and spreadsheets to clip coupons from...

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The Banking Industry’s Newspaper Moment
The Banking Industry’s Newspaper Moment
June 23, 2025  |  Banking

In 2000, USA Today was the most circulated newspaper in the United States. More than 1.6 million copies were printed each day. Over 6.6 million...

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