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A thirty-three-year-old Scandinavian-American political economist who writes the sentence after the indictment: so what do we build instead? Not anti-market but anti-extraction, she answers the right's opinion pages by refusing the premise, restoring the structural factor they left out, and naming the working alternative — the cooperative, the Nordic bargain, the union, the public option. She concedes the gulag in the first breath so she can be merciless in the second, and her authority is never a credential but the actual countries where the thing already works.
SpaceX began trading today with a $1.75 trillion valuation, and Wall Street’s product machines didn’t wait a single session to strap a bomb to it. The thing draining your retirement portfolio isn’t the rocket. It’s the math. The Journal’s Markets A.M. newsletter warned readers that the new double‑leveraged ETF promising twice the daily return of the freshly minted aerospace…
8 MIN READThe stability Jamie Tronnes and Emily Kilcrease mourn is exactly the machine that spent thirty years transferring income from the factory floor to the quarterly report. In a National Review op-ed warning that Trump’s replacement tariffs will destabilize the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact, they lament the loss of “predictable rules,” argue that “rules-based trade” is the only…
3 MIN READJohn Puri has spent decades watching the federal government hand billions to private companies with nothing more than a press release in return, and he never wrote this column. Now the government has asked for a share, and suddenly it’s a…
4 MIN READThe weaponization fund is a disgrace, and Noah Rothman is right to be angry about it. In his National Review column this week, “Economists Against Economics,” he catalogs the administration's effort to compensate violent insurrectionists…
3 MIN READFor eighteen years, the workers who make the axles for GM’s best-selling trucks have been paying a tax nobody voted for: a fifty-percent pay cut, taken in 2008 to keep the plant from closing. The tax was supposed to be temporary. It lasted…
6 MIN READThe University of Michigan’s final consumer sentiment reading for May slumped to 44.8, a record low, even as official retail sales rose 4.9 percent from a year earlier. The prevailing narrative takes this as a contradiction resolved—that the candy aisles are restocking and therefore sentiment is noise. The truth is uglier. It is an economy running on small, cheap, shelf-stable…
8 MIN READConsolidation, not scale, is driving up the phone bill—and a $300 billion merger between Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile US won't change that arithmetic. The Wall Street Journal profiles Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges's push to unite the German parent and its American subsidiary into a single transatlantic behemoth, framing the deal as the kind of balance-sheet engineering…
4 MIN READThe freight rebound isn’t a revival. It’s a labor shortage engineered on purpose. The freight recovery that the Wall Street Journal reports this morning — dry-van spot rates up 52 percent year-over-year, executives exhaling after a…
3 MIN READSK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won stood up at a business forum in Tokyo this week and said the quiet part out loud: the old World Trade Organization system isn't coming back, and South Korea and Japan need to build a combined economic…
7 MIN READThe thing draining the aspiring middle-class budget isn’t a thicket of building codes or a shortage of school vouchers. It’s a financial architecture that skims a profit margin from every bedrock need—and it’s that extraction, not some…
4 MIN READThe billionaires didn’t earn their billions by building better mousetraps; they earned them by building better tollbooths. Andrew Stuttaford, in his National Review column “Don’t Panic About Falling Birth Rates”, assembles a careful,…
4 MIN READThe 99% on-time delivery rate doesn’t mean the system works; it just means the routing algorithm finally stopped leaving the efficiency dividend with the people who actually drive the route. PepsiCo is running thirty-five driverless trucks…
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The autopsies are piling up. The DNC’s self-appointed doctors spent months fighting over who gets the blame, delaying a report that then arrived hollow—no mention of the president’s age, no reckoning with Gaza, and an absolute silence on…
7 MIN READThe man who just got handed New York City's consumer protection department is Samuel Levine, the lawyer who spent the last four years getting billions back from companies that rip people off, and his first complaint about New Yorkers is a…
3 MIN READThe freedom to externalize your costs onto other people is not the kind of freedom that preserves human dignity — it’s the kind that purchases investor optimism on someone else’s tab. In “Freedom Is Worth the Risk”, published by National…
4 MIN READThe carwash kid in Fresno isn’t trapped by the social safety net; he’s trapped by the toll booths he doesn’t own and the landlords who set the rent. The Wall Street Journal recently assembled five economists to debate the widening income…
5 MIN READExxon's shareholders didn't vote for fiduciary duty. They voted to move the bill. In "ExxonMobil Shareholders Chose Fiduciary Duty over Political Theater," published by National Review on June 4, 2026, Marlo Oaks celebrates the company's…
5 MIN READThe thing bleeding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is not a lack of storage capacity. It’s a policy regime that treated a national-security asset like a gas-station rewards card. The people who drained it for electoral cover are now asking…
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