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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 Mamdani made clear exactly where he intends to take New York City’s economy.

First, he targeted landlords as a political class, framing housing providers not

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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 of the people who made the most money from the American capitalist system now devote enormous resources to attacking the very conditions that allowed them to succeed.

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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 clear.

Within days of taking office, she publicly suggested that grocery stores should no longer be allowed to close — even if they are losing money, facing

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Government Macro Economics

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 children the chance to build real wealth before they even start high school. The choice before the country could not be clearer. Trump Accounts present …

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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 distractions, the country has finally produced a national initiative with real ambition behind it. Not managed decline. Not bureaucratic tinkering. A true national project.

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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 the entire country is in a housing crisis.

Turn on cable news and you’ll hear it: “America’s housing market is collapsing… families can’t

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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 them.

In a recent ideological victory lap, Wilson announced she will not allow private grocery stores to close in certain neighborhoods — as if the mayor

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Finance Macro Economics

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 spanks the billionaires,” takes aim at Elon Musk and completely misses the real story. This isn’t about emotional outrage over big numbers on a Forbes list. It’s about

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Zohran Mamdani’s $100 Billion Housing Fantasy

New York City’s incoming left-wing administration is pitching the most breathtakingly reckless housing scheme in modern memory — a $100 billion “affordable housing” plan that looks more like an economic suicide pact than sound public policy.

The blueprint promises to build 200,000 union-built, rent-stabilized apartments over ten years. The financing?

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The Great Realignment: Silicon Valley Finally Joins the Fight for Freedom

When the next war is fought with algorithms and autonomy, America’s innovators must already be enlisted.


From Tel Aviv to Palo Alto, from Kyiv to Huntsville, the boundaries between defense and innovation are dissolving — and the free world is finally acting like it.

For years, the tech world prided