Funny thing is, nobody believes SpaceX is an "investment." The only people buying it are (a) delusional or (b) playing a greater-fool theory with the hopes they can offload it on some bigger sucker. Nonetheless, it feels prudent to analyze it as a real investment. It is
Bottom line: The Nasdaq 100's roughly 31% advance from the late-March panic low to its first-ever close above 30,000, and the S&P 500's parallel run to a record 7,519, are the engineered output of four mechanical flow regimes. JPMorgan'
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are about 38,900 working coal miners in the United States as of early 2026, 17,800 working on the surface and 21,100 underground, making "coal mining" a smaller occupation than "working at Arby's." Meanwhile,
How AI detection reinforces a century of class bias in elite college admissions — and why the chatbot is just the latest test of who passes. When Cornell and Carnegie Mellon researchers ran 81,663 college applications through a custom AI detector, they found something the elite admissions industry would prefer
On the Washington Post, AOC, and the persistent confusion of "earn" with "have." Over at the Washington Post—the broadsheet whose ultimate owner, Jeff Bezos, last fall spiked his own paper's planned presidential endorsement and has since narrowed the opinion section to the defense
The Supreme Court today killed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining pillar, and the one Justice Roberts promised back in Shelby County would still be available. He of course joined today's destruction. It did not have the courage to say so. In Louisiana v.
The US equity market in April 2026 is, by every long-horizon valuation instrument we possess, at or near its most extended reading in 150 years of data—a Buffett Indicator of roughly 220–233% of GDP, a Shiller CAPE above 36, an aggregate Tobin's Q near 1.
The Yale Committee on Trust in Higher Education released its fifty-eight-page report on April 10, 2026, presenting itself as a sober, scholarly exercise in institutional self-examination. It is, in fact, something more consequential and more troubling: a document of anticipatory compliance with a right-wing political campaign
President Trump, asked about Iran's new practice of charging oil tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz, suggested the United States might enter into a "joint venture" with Tehran to collect the tolls. "It's a way of securing it," he explained, "
A while back, Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, said AI “will destroy humanities jobs,” which has become a standard line among weird know-nothing billionaire Silicon Valley fascists who are somehow unfathomably rich yet still resentful of adjunct professors. He's wrong. Large language models don't diminish
One of the keys to understanding American politics in the 21st Century: demands for "civility" function not as neutral procedural norms but as asymmetric power tools that systematically protect dominant-group behavior from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object. That should be self-