I've had the same conversation a dozen or more times. Someone mentions they're thinking about moving south, or they just did, and sooner or later the pitch arrives: no income tax, lower cost of living, you keep more of what you earn. It comes out like
Ukrainian officers are training American war fighters on a Ukrainian acoustic detection system at an American air base in Saudi Arabia, and the reason they are doing this is humiliating for everyone involved except the Ukrainians. Over $1.3 billion in American hardware (a $300-million AWACS aircraft, a THAAD radar,
Somewhere on the 40th floor of a building you would recognize, a room full of people who could not create an email account without calling someone from IT is making the largest capital allocation decisions in the history of American business. They are the board of directors, the people with
This article explores do layoffs for AI actually help a business in the long run. We analyze 1000s of transcripts and stock filings to look at the data - the answer is depressing.
AI regulation in America is not a missed opportunity but rather exactly what is being optimized for - money. This article explores why and the fundamental differences in how the EU and USA treat their citizens.
Austin brought rents down 19%. Boston flew a delegation out to learn how, took detailed notes, came home, and did very little. This article explores what can easily be done.
This article disects what the Republican Party of America actually is - a fundamentalist party that has more in common with the Taliban than Christianity.
America has long had a grip on Europe especially since the Ukraine war, but that grip is becoming weaker by the day and in large it's down to Ukraine.
With states having larger budgets than ever why does everything feel like it is falling apart? This article examines what has shifted and why.
AI gave corporate America a way to gut headcount and get applauded for it. An NBER study found only 2% of execs attributed cuts to actual AI, but 60% cut in anticipation of efficiencies that haven't arrived. The bet was never productivity. It was permanent wage compression with better PR.
OpenAI built its brand on responsible governance. The internal record says otherwise. A web of 400 portfolio companies, a venture fund Sam owned without the board's knowledge, and a pattern of deals that keep landing in his favor.
Allies waited out Trump's first term because 2016 could be priced as an accident. 2024, with the full record on the table, was a choice. Denmark named the U.S. a security concern for the first time ever, Canada put American weapons last on its procurement list. These signals don't unwind.
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Women are 25% of the tech workforce but took 45-47% of layoffs. Now AI-usage scores are becoming a retention criterion, and a Harvard meta-analysis of 143,000 people found women have 22% lower odds of using generative AI, not from lack of interest but lack of encouragement. Same group, twice.
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Klarna replaced 700 agents with a chatbot, became the poster child for AI productivity, then quietly hired humans back after quality collapsed and the CEO admitted they'd "gone too far." The pattern is repeating across the industry while the actual productivity data remains vanishingly thin.
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After layoffs, every remaining employee runs the same calculation: agree with the exec, ship what they want, never push back. Meta's own staff flagged nobody used Horizon Worlds before the first cuts landed, and the company burned another $75 billion on metaverse losses before calling it.
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Generative AI predicts the most statistically likely output from its training data, which means everything it creates pulls toward the middle of what already exists. If the technology had existed in the age of the horse and cart, it would have given you a better cart, never a car.
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The Democrats are falling into the Starmer trap, defining themselves against Trump with no vision of their own. Starmer hit -57 net favorability within 18 months of a 165-seat majority. Meanwhile Mamdani won New York on one word, and Talarico raised $27M with zero corporate PAC money.
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Corporate profits hit $4 trillion. S&P500 companies returned $1.57 trillion to shareholders. They did this while cutting a quarter million tech jobs and raising prices. This article explores how both corporate America and government broke the social contract and what could come next.