The unlimited AI and energy now being unleashed is supposed to usher in a new utopia centered around low wages and prices. So why are Andreessen and friends so intent on a police state as part of the grand experiment we’re all being enlisted in?
Read more...A Starmer death watch sighting.
Read more...Mass deportation raids have barely started, yet ICE is faking their prevalence! What gives?
Read more...AI coverage whistles past the graveyard of its lack of enough content to generate good output, assuring garbage in, garbage out.
Read more...Trump is opening up a multi-front economic war by imposing tariffs on America’s biggest trade partners, with the EU next in line. What gives?
Read more...Quelle surprise! Data supports the notion that defense contractors do well in times of conflict.
Read more...Why MAHA won’t accomplish much even if it gets off the starting block unless the US also addresses inequality. Good luck with that.
Read more...How shareholder activism, which once helped check self-serving managements, has become the province of hedge fund extortionists.
Read more...NIH funding is a case study of how the Trump wreaking ball will damage medical research and undermine US leadership in medicine.
Read more...Colombia and coffee and flowers, or how successful bullying does not necessarily translate into durable wins.
Read more...The New York Times sinks to a new low in defending Mexican cartels because they are too intertwined in US economic activity.
Read more...Consumers may not suffer from more inflation per official data if Trump imposes tariffs. But that does not mean they won’t be worse off.
Read more...For CRE, the motto in 2024 was “Survive till 2025” via extend-and-pretend. Now it’s 2025, and here comes the government’s office space.
Read more...Why “make government efficient” and cost cutting programs are close to destined to come up short.
Read more...Trump is adept at using his willingness to be wildly inconsistent to destabilize opponents. But he is unduly fond of using blunt instruments like tariffs that he can impose unilaterally, with insufficient consideration of whether they will work all that well, let alone what bad unintended effects they might generate. What Trump has done so […]
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