Economy
GDP is up 4.1% and real wages are down 2.3%. Both figures come from the same source — and everything that matters about current economic policy sits between them.
Economy
Why a bank stores not money but trust, why any financial panic is a crisis of faith, and why without trust it is not only a bank that collapses but a society.
Economy
Why every honest job deserves respect, why we stopped noticing those who carry the world on their shoulders, and what a society that scorns manual work loses.
Economy
The oil-price spike born of the Iran war is at once a gift to the budget and a dangerous trap for an exporting country, and I will explain why one does not cancel out the other.
Economy
Why the price of everything traces back to energy, what "energy spent to get energy" means, and why cheap energy is a quiet form of power.
Economy
Why a society that punishes failure stays poor, and why a person who has never failed has most likely never really tried.
Economy
Why automation more often changes professions than destroys them, and what that means for us.
Economy
A simple explanation of where inflation comes from, why it hits different people differently, and what really helps.
Economy
Why food independence is stronger than any raw material, and where the underrated trump card of agrarian countries lies.
Economy
What money really is, and why the whole financial system rests on one fragile thing — trust.
Economy
Why small business is not a trifle beside corporations but a pillar of the economy and of freedom.
Economy
How the old idea that trade benefits both sides works, and why it has losers that people honestly stay silent about.
Economy
Rising prices are often called an abstract number. But it is the most unjust of taxes — and it is paid first by those for whom life is already hardest.
