Category: Economics/Class Relations

Realignment Conference Part II: Centralization vs. Decentralization & the Future of Populism

Watch part one: https://youtu.be/Jp_npcFNavE Today we’re featuring excerpts from our Realignment conference in Miami. The James Madison Institute’s Andrea O’Sullivan and Wired’s Gilad Edelman on the tensions between centralization and decentralization will define tech and politics. American Affairs’s Julius Krein, American Compass’s Wells King, and the Niskanen Center’s […]

These three firms own corporate America

By Jan Fichtner, Eelke Heemskerk, and Javier Garcia-Bernardo, The Conversation A fundamental change is underway in stock market investing, and the spin-off effects are poised to dramatically impact corporate America. In the past, individuals and large institutions mostly invested in actively managed mutual funds, such as Fidelity, in […]

Peter Zeihan, Brave New World

The end of the world is just the beginning. In his next book, economics guru and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan predicts the coming breakdown of globalization and identifies who will benefit and who will lose. For two generations, the Americans have held up the world’s collective ceiling. Globe-spanning […]

The Strange Career of Paul Krugman

By Michael Lind, Tablet How a trash-talking neoliberal economist harmed America by vilifying strategic trade and industrial policy. Strategic trade and national industrial policy are back. Growing U.S. military and economic competition with China, along with the COVID-19 pandemic, have revealed the dependence of the United States on […]