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The Affordable Care Act is usually judged by what it failed to deliver. A better way to understand it is by asking why it endured anyway. Once a system reaches enough scale, failure can become the safest condition available.
Failure Is the Feature Read More »
Trucking is where the economy becomes physical, and right now it’s under audit. A prolonged freight downturn has collided with federal enforcement on labor, licensing, and training, squeezing an already brittle industry from every direction.
The Trucking Crackdown Read More »
Cracker Barrel didn’t stumble into trouble—it was marched there by a rebrand that solved nothing. Since October, weak earnings, traffic erosion, and shifting excuses have made the damage impossible to ignore. The story isn’t about modernization; it’s about what happens when management forgets who the customer actually is.
Taco Julie’s Extended Collapse Read More »
Peru’s jumbo squid fishery once sustained thousands of coastal workers and anchored entire towns. Satellite data and investigative reporting now show how industrial fleets followed the migrating squid until the stock collapsed offshore.
How China’s Squid Fleet Broke Peru’s Pota Economy Read More »
We examine modern NGOs through the historical lens of piracy, where intermediaries and “ports” mattered more than the raiders themselves. If the structure doesn’t change, neither will the outcome.
Ports, Factors, and Prize Agents Read More »
Mitt Romney’s “7% moment” wasn’t just a campaign gaffe — it marked the end of persuasion politics in America. The electorate that could once be moved by argument has been replaced by demographic hardening, institutional distrust, and a dependency-driven political infrastructure.
WHY ROMNEY’S 7% NO LONGER EXISTS Read More »
Union dues aren’t just funding workplace issues anymore — they’re bankrolling entire political ecosystems. Most of it happens through coalitions and nonprofits workers never hear about.
Union Money in Disguise Read More »
Economists and government bean-counters have quietly known for years that every murder wipes out millions of dollars in future productivity, taxes, and institutional knowledge — but we still treat homicide as a talking point instead of a national balance-sheet emergency.
Another Federal Reserve official has resigned after violating stock-trading rules during blackout periods — this time Adriana Kugler, whose trades were referred to the Fed’s watchdog.
Adriana Kugler: Trading at The Fed Read More »
The H-1B program wasn’t a merit system — it was a 30-year labor-arbitrage machine that suppressed wages and displaced U.S. workers. Project Firewall finally admits it.
