Blame Cronyism for Our Economic Woes, Not Free Markets
What is so startling about the rise of Democratic Socialism is not that young people are realizing that the economy ...
Friday, July 31, 2026
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You blame Visa and Mastercard for the swipe fee, but they keep almost none of it — the fat cut, called interchange, flows straight to the bank that issued your card, and it barely exists in the countries that built their own payment rails
When a Visa-branded card taps a terminal at a Manhattan bodega and the customer walks out with a $4 coffee, ...
Don’t Blame Indexing for Your Problems
Has the rise of passive investing broken the stock market? Is the level of passive ownership too high? No. There ...
Tech layoffs are running 44% ahead of last year while the same companies post record profits and mint new billionaires — and the structural setup is stranger than 2008 because there’s no crash to blame
The tech layoffs story is being told backward. The conventional reading is that something must have gone wrong — a ...
Don’t Blame the Messenger—the CBO—for Our Current Fiscal Problems
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) provides annual snapshots of the federal government’s fiscal outlook, which in recent years has gone ...
Here’s Why 59% of Workers Blame Their Jobs for Declining Mental Health
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared on Monster. Data from Monster’s 2026 State of Workplace Mental Health Report shows that ...
‘Spray and Pray’ Is the New Go-To for Job Seekers (and Employers Are to Blame)
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared on Monster. Monster’s latest Job Application Behavior Report found that 48% of job seekers ...
Psychology says the defining trait of people who always move forward in life isn’t how hard they push — it’s what they do in the hours and days after something breaks them, because the discipline that actually determines a life’s trajectory isn’t the kind that shows up in routines and goals, it’s the kind that surfaces when everything falls apart and nobody would blame you for stopping
I had a friend call me at eleven on a Sunday night, maybe three years back, the kind of call ...
Capitalism Is Not to Blame for Wokeness
In an article published by Chronicles, titled “Wokeness and Capitalism,” Neema Parvini argues that “the woke prerequisites – mass immigration, ...
Mom & Pop Shops Closing In Record Numbers – Are Tariffs To Blame?
Subchapter V filings intended for small businesses have risen 8% annually to 2,221 bankruptcies as of November 2025. Bloomberg and ...
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