By any measure, health care in the United States is too expensive. Premiums are set to rise again in 2026. National filings already project increases of nearly twenty percent for many Affordable Care Act marketplace plans. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, for example, has warned of a 19.3
Marc Andreessen’s core point is timeless: the great franchises of technology start as products, not companies. That’s also the free market’s secret—originality emerges bottom‑up from builders solving real problems; command systems can only follow and copy.
Andreessen puts it plainly: “There are products that become companies, and then there are
For two decades, the global elite praised Latin America’s leftist “pink tide” as if it were the future of governance. Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, the Kirchners, and their imitators promised prosperity through big government, central planning, and redistribution. What did it deliver? Rampant inflation, empty store shelves, collapsing currencies, and
Book Review: Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
It isn’t every Sunday that the New York Times Book Review places a work of political economy at the center of its pages. But Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance has managed to capture something rare in contemporary politics: a diagnosis
Washington’s red tape strangled IPOs, locked out Main Street, and handed the future to China. Time to tear down the barriers and bring wealth-building back to the American people.
These days you can hardly turn on the TV without some politician wailing and gnashing their teeth about the “wealth gap.”
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Eastman Kodak—the company that once owned the word “photography”—told the SEC this week there is “substantial doubt” it can continue operating. That’s not spin. That’s an official “going concern” warning, the kind of disclosure companies make when the future looks like a short runway with no lift.
The stock plunged
America’s kids are more connected than ever—but not to their own bodies.
President just reinstated the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, reviving one of the most iconic benchmarks in American schools: the Presidential Fitness Test. For decades, this test was a rite of passage—equal
Once upon a time, Ford and General Motors weren’t just companies—they were the soul of American industry. They were blue-collar glory, V8 thunder on Main Street, and the living proof that capitalism, craftsmanship, and patriotism could build an empire. These weren’t just carmakers; they were institutions.
And now? They’re glorified