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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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
Donald Trump saw it before the bureaucrats did: AI was the future, and America had to lead. So he lit the fuse—Executive Order 13859—and launched a revolution in open, pro-growth innovation. Then Biden showed up with a fire extinguisher.
In 2019, Trump signed the American AI Initiative, the first of
One American company—NVIDIA—is now valued nearly as much as Germany’s entire economy. That’s not a statistic. That’s a statement.
While media elites obsessed over identity politics and bureaucrats in Washington agonized over “equity,” American capitalism quietly, boldly, and unapologetically, dominated the world. Not with slogans, not with mandates, but with
Let’s be honest, what we call “health insurance” is a linguistic fraud. It’s neither about health, nor is it insurance in the classic economic sense. It’s a bloated, bureaucratic cost-shifting mechanism that fails at its most basic goals: keeping people healthy, aligning risk with price, and incentivizing good behavior. Instead,
with credit to Katherine Boyle
The biggest threat to American prosperity isn’t foreign—it’s domestic. It’s a mindset. A bureaucratic allergy to progress.
Folks, let me lay it out plain and simple: we have a clash of worldviews. On one side, a bloated, risk-averse government trapped in a zero-sum loop—where progress
At Optimum Broadband, we focus on where markets, money, and digital policy intersect. But sometimes, the biggest stories aren’t found in crypto charts or fiber infrastructure—they’re hiding in plain sight, buried beneath jargon and bureaucratic complacency. Today’s case in point: the Federal Reserve’s jaw-dropping $232 billion loss. That’s right. The
The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act of 2025, commonly known as the GENIUS Act, represents a pivotal moment in the evolution of American financial policy. As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on this legislation, the act’s potential to reshape the global financial landscape by reinforcing
By 2030, U.S. electricity demand from AI and data centers is projected to more than double—yet our power grid is already struggling. Let’s be honest: America’s energy infrastructure is on the brink under the weight of its own ambition. AI. Data centers. Electrification of everything. It’s a digital arms race—and