In the modern Internet-based economy, it’s inevitable that everything be paywalled. The economy is becoming more and more built on information, and the only way to monetize information […]

We all know that things are changing in the American economy. It doesn’t show up in a single headline. But once you see the pattern, you can’t unsee […]

There’s a useful way to look at the world, though it’s not the way we’re usually taught. We imagine nations as independent actors, each standing on its own. […]

As larger, top-down frameworks weaken or become less relevant, people naturally turn to the local — to communities where they have direct relationships and real influence. It seems […]

This is a compilation of four essays with similar threads. They’ve been woven together into a single narrative that is both interesting and possibly concerning. Definitely worth the […]

Small players don’t win by trying to out-scale the giants. That game’s already decided. The advantage, for the 99%, is shifting upstream — earlier in the chain, closer […]

One aspect of the Western economic system has been the leveraging of manufactured scarcity. Markets have always played at scarcity to drive up demand and price. But that’s […]

Economists tend to fall into two camps, and if you listen to them long enough it begins sounding like a long-running family argument at Thanksgiving. On one side […]

A nation is more than a place on a map. It is a shared story, a common allegiance, a belief in something that binds its people together. But […]