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Le Diplomate is one of the toughest tables in Washington, DC. When it opened in 2013 its wildly popular Burger Americain (with French fries) set diners back $14, according to the Washington Post.…
How unfortunate if the U.S. loses the AI race not because it’s not competitive, but because politics needlessly got in the way.
Without the rich, non-profit organizations would be relatively scarce. The previous statement isn’t ideological as much as it’s merely a statement of the obvious that whether the arts, ideas, health,…
Nvidia’s share price is up 1,681% since October of 2020. The timing is notable because it was also in October of 2020 that the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Google based on its…
As opposed to a signal of worsening problems in the mortgage industry itself, United Wholesale Mortgage's struggles signal a company-specific reckoning.
“The state of the world is terrifying.” That’s the excellent Bret Stephens from a recent conversation he had with the similarly excellent Frank Bruni at the New York Times. Stephens might admit to…
In the late 19 th century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest publicly traded corporation in the world. By figuratively shrinking the U.S. and the world through shipments of goods and inputs…
Breaking inflation is easy. It involves electing a president who believes in a dollar rendered strong by its stability. Alas, Donald Trump is not that president.
“Sandy Koufax teases me. He said ‘Why weren’t you smart enough to come up with that 10 years before? Then it would be the Koufax operation.’” The words in quotes come from legendary orthopedic…
The biggest threat to your livelihood is the indolence of others. Or if they’re dead.
Progress is not defined by what we know, it’s what we no longer need to know. National Review editor Rich Lowry seemingly disagrees.
If the Fed caused the inflation, then why is the Fed empowered to fix inflation? It’s a question not asked enough, but with the Fed a combination of mysticism, myth, and gullibility inform an…
So valuable are technological minds presently that corporations are offering hundreds of millions to the best-and-brightest to move west, across town, or even next door.
“I also remember 9/11. Every sense at the time recognized the magnitude of the event and also that the U.S., with so much money in its pockets, and political imperative being what it was, was about…
Blowups rooted in risky market behavior are ok, but not the regulation that inevitably follows them.
For AI companies who’ve yet to go public, AI’s dangerous mystery is seemingly its life.
“Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.” Those were the words of Ronald Reagan.
Oil in abundance is a given. The United States could find itself 100% bereft of oil, all the while at war with or embargoed by every oil-producing nation on earth, and the truth about oil abundance…
The United States fixed poverty over 250 years ago. Evidence supporting this claim can be found in the fact that the world’s poorest have long made the U.S. their destination not to attain security…
Conservatives and libertarians must stop pandering. They’ve long done it with taxes and education, and now they’re doing it with data centers.
There’s only one billionaire in Vermont. No wonder the government there is so small.
Production always and everywhere precedes consumption, and the federal government produces nothing.
Everyone at Yale thinks they’ll eventually be president. Harvard is no different.
Donald Trump is doing exactly as modern conservatives should want him to do in Venezuela. Which speaks to how much conservatism has changed. To see why, pivot to Hong Kong.
