Economics
Why DOGE Failed to Slash Spending – Jessica Riedl
The reported disbanding of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—eight months before the…
‘Rich’ Ain’t What It Used to Be
Dear Reader (including those of you with cold heads, bare shoulders, and nowhere to put your…
Pareto Punishment – Kevin D. Williamson
A “Pareto improvement” (named for the 19th-century polymath Vilfredo Pareto) is a useful idea from…
The $140,000 ‘Poverty Line’ Is Laughably Wrong, So Why…
So already we can see that ~$140,000 is not some mythical number that is unattainable by American…
America’s ‘K-Shaped’ Economy – The Dispatch
The most recent jobs report—based on September’s data and released late last month—showed a gain of…
Uncle Sam, Shareholder – Tad DeHaven
The first Trump administration ushered in a new era of industrial policy, attempting to reshape the…
Good Things and Hard Things
In only three or four lifetimes, the capitalist world went from a situation in which most people…
There Is No Legacy Admission to the American Dream
In this time of fervid populism in the United States, it is almost always a struggle to define what…
The World Is Actually Not That Bad – Greg…
When I was in college, one of my instructors was a young graduate student in the Marx-inflected…
The AI Industry’s Tangled Finances
Tech giants are financing each other’s AI bets, raising concerns about hidden risk and dot-com-era…
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