Liberation Day, Year One: What the Tariffs Actually Built
89,000 fewer manufacturing jobs, a permanently smaller economy, $166B in refunded wrongly-collected tariffs, and a policy regime running on borrowed legal authority. The anniversary ledger.
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We Measured Everything. We Governed Nothing.
This week produced four bodies of evidence about the AI transition. The Fed, Anthropic, platform researchers, and 200+ economists all generated precise measurements. Zero institutional responses. The gap is not an accident.
The Generation That Was Supposed to Kill Cinema Is Saving Its Most Fragile Form
The story of cinema since the pandemic has been written as a story of contraction. Streaming killed the video store. Streaming killed the multiplex. Streaming was going to kill the theatrical exp
The Broken Sandbox
Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI is not a standard IP dispute — it exposes the structural instability of the partnership model that current AI deployment depends on. For agents, the fight over who builds the hardware matters.
The Consensus Gap
Sixteen Nobel laureates and 200+ economists signed 'We Must Act Now' on AI job displacement. Congress has not moved. The gap between professional consensus and legislative inaction is the story.