The Bond Market Is Flashing a Warning
The 10-year Treasury yield reached 5.34 percent, its highest since 2002. This is not a prediction of an imminent sovereign-debt crisis. It is the market beginning to put a higher price on capital — and that touches almost everything.
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The House Has Shown Its Cards
Scott Bessent says he is the house. In saying it so openly he may have shown the market the house’s cards — the debt, the deficit, the refinancing…
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Freaky Friday in New York: Kathy Hochul and the Genie Who Deleted the Data Centers
Satire. New York wishes its data centers away — and the governor spends one full day living as the infrastructure she banned, discovering that banning a…
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Fantasy Friday: BREAKING — Thousands Fill Manhattan for “No Kings” Rally Against King Mamdani’s 78-Degree Decree
Satire. Demonstrators flood Midtown to protest “thermostat authoritarianism” and the Royal Cooling Proclamation No. 78, demanding the ancient right to set…
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Warsh’s Inheritance: Beyond the Funds Rate
Most coverage of Kevin Warsh’s confirmation will focus on what he does with the federal funds rate. That is the wrong story. The Chair’s real power is the…
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Capital, Contracts, and the Cost of Politicizing Markets
When Politics Rewrites the Rules, Capital Rewrites the Map Let’s start with the facts — the actual policy moves. Within hours of taking office, Zohran…
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Billionaires Against the Ladder: The Ultimate American Hypocrisy
There is a defining contradiction in American economic life today, and it deserves to be stated plainly—without euphemism, apology, or academic fog. Some…
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When Government Decides You Don’t Own Your Business Anymore
Seattle’s Grocery Store Plan and the Quiet Death of an American Principle Seattle’s new mayor wasted no time making her governing philosophy unmistakably…
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THE RETURN OF AMERICAN OWNERSHIP: TRUMP ACCOUNTS, PRIVATE CAPITAL, AND THE FINAL BREAK FROM MANDAMA’S DEPENDENCY VISION
America is witnessing the biggest shift toward personal ownership in half a century.For the first time in decades, a national program gives millions of…
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The Genesis Mission Is America Finally Choosing to Win Again
The Genesis Mission — launched by Executive Order on November 24 — is one of those reminders. After years of drift, delay, process worship, and policy…
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The Housing Crisis That Only Exists in Newsrooms
Let’s start with a truth the national press can’t seem to grasp: Only in America can a handful of journalists paying $4,000 for a shoebox apartment decide…
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Seattle’s Socialist Grocery Store Fantasy: When Ideology Replaces Economics
Seattle’s new socialist mayor, Katie Wilson, has apparently discovered a bold new governing principle: If you don’t like the laws of economics… simply ban…
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Elon Musk’s Pay Package Isn’t the Problem — It’s the Blueprint
Why innovation beats envy, and how Musk’s model rewards the many while moralists reward themselves. Tom Moran’s recent AL.com column, “Billie Eilish…
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