The Fairy Tales of Empire
The violence and exploitation that used to be directed from the First World outward to the periphery in the Third World is now directed inward toward enslaving the middle class in the U.S. and Europe via iatrogenic illness.
More Access. More Choice. Less Cost.
Secretary Kennedy is right to question the cost and power of the American Medical Association’s Current Procedural Terminology monopoly. But eliminating CPT would solve the wrong problem—and could create a much larger one.
Beware of Starship Captains Who Bear Gift Cards
Next time you see one of those scammy Medicare ads, write to your elected officials and demand that brokers present all options to the seniors that they serve and abide by the same fiduciary standard as if they were recommending financial investments.
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America’s Drug Shortage Is a National Security Crisis
A nation that cannot supply its hospitals with essential medicines is not merely experiencing an inconvenient drug shortage. It has discovered a strategic vulnerability, and the next time that vulnerability is exposed may be precisely when we can least afford it.
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The Clarity Act Is the Trojan Horse
If the goal is progress, the superior path remains the free-market alternative: To wit, enforce property rights and prosecute fraud under existing statutes, and refrain from constructing a new federal apparatus that recreates the intermediary structures blockchain was invented to challenge.
The Money Printers Fueling Socialism’s Rise
An economy this top-heavy with paper wealth – as the poor and middle class get destroyed with persistent inflation, slow growth, and unstable labor markets pervasive with dropouts – is not sustainable. It’s not capitalism but rather corruption by the printing press.
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City of Angels
Some people understand the corruption, fraud, and coordination of criminal activity that has led us here. Far fewer understand how deeply that dysfunction persists, and the degree to which it has been amplified.
Economic Calculation in the Vaccinated Commonwealth
Compliance is tanking, which is what one would expect after brutal mandates and ubiquitous injury and death. Meanwhile, pharma bots are dominating social media to shame dissidents, while legacy media turns news pages into nonstop shot-and-pill advertising.
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Since Lockdowns, a 12% GDP Loss; Half of US Dollar Purchasing Power Stolen
Many of us have had the intuition that the economic damage from 2020 – including industrial stoppages, monetary printing, supply-chain disruptions, extended school closures, and general population demoralization – was greater than official statistics indicate. What follows will shore up this intuition.
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Less Is More in Medicine
We need to be asking questions about whether sending more of our collective wealth towards our healthcare system is producing good returns. We might expect that anything spent on healthcare provides good returns, but what if those investments end in losses?
The Demonization of Men (and Everyone Else Too)
While each of us are free to live by our own privately held theories regarding the actions taken by, or in the name of, Collective X or Collective Y, it is never right for the government to do so.
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AI Deletes Routine White Collar Jobs
The Industrial Revolution took jobs from people who work with their hands — routine physical work. But AI is taking routine paperwork — people who forward emails, schedule meetings, and sit on diversity committees.