What Amazon’s “Insane” AI Bet Reveals About the Price of Survival
The core argument: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's shareholder letter, released Thursday, isn't just a business update — it's a meditation ...
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The ‘Boom Belt’ Is Quickly Becoming America’s Economic Iron Curtain
There is a particular kind of political argument that does not need to be made in words, because it is ...
California’s $20 Fast-Food Wage Hike Delivers the Opposite of What Was Promised
University of California, Santa Cruz researchers documented a range of negative outcomes from the state’s $20 minimum wage for fast-food ...
The Arithmetic of Apathy: What Happens if the World’s Oil Spigot Stays Dark
There is a particular kind of blindness that afflicts prosperous societies — the conviction that the machinery of modern life ...
Mamdani’s ‘Racial Equity Plan’ Is Pure Discrimination Wrapped in Modernized Marxism
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood before cameras at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn on Monday and unveiled what ...
“The Everything Meltdown”: Global Supply Chains Are Collapsing and Most Cannot Imagine the Pain That Is Coming
(The Economic Collapse Blog)—When global supply chains collapse, the pain is not felt immediately. Tankers that left their destinations before ...
The New ‘Millionaire’s Tax’ in Washington Is Already Terrifying Productive Residents
Democrat politicians, especially in far-left cities like Seattle, view people as members of three different groups. There are the ATMs, ...
We Are Being Warned That the Global Fertilizer Crisis Could Push World Hunger Way Above the Current All-Time Record High
(The Economic Collapse Blog)—What are we going to do when global food prices go absolutely nuts and hundreds of millions ...
What the Gargantuan March Jobs Miss Reveals About Wall Street’s Broken Crystal Ball
There is a peculiar ritual that plays out on the first Friday of every month in America. A constellation of ...
California’s Quagmire of Fraud
A City Journal investigation reveals that fraudsters have stolen at least $180 billion from California taxpayers since Governor Gavin Newsom ...