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Your employer spends $20,000 a year on your health insurance. You never see it. Neither does the company trying to compete with one that does. Here's the full cost of the current system, in numbers.
Read →NIH, DARPA, and DOE funded the internet, GPS, mRNA vaccines, and CRISPR. Then companies took those patents and charged you. And if you want to start the company that commercializes it? The system fights you at every step.
Read →Your rent isn't high because of population growth or foreign investors. It's high because your city government made it illegal to build enough housing. Here's the bill, in dollars and commute time.
Read →Universal basic income sounds expensive. But you're already paying for poverty — through emergency rooms, jails, administrative bureaucracies, and lost economic output. Here's the honest math.
Read →Washington has an industry that generates $220 in return for every $1 invested. It's not tech. It's not finance. It's the business of buying policy — and the product being sold is the legislation that governs your life.
Read →The US tax code is 75,000 pages long. You're not just paying taxes — you're paying to understand them. Compliance costs drain billions from the economy every year, and the burden falls hardest on the people who can least afford an accountant.
Read →Public healthcare isn't a social benefit. It's economic infrastructure. Here's why decoupling healthcare from employment unlocks entrepreneurship, accelerates innovation, and builds the competitive economy we need.
Read →America's economy isn't broken by markets. It's paralyzed by corruption — the systemic kind that turns promising ideas into permit battles and forces startups to choose between healthcare and growth.
Read →New posts on the economic architecture — what's broken, why it persists, and what changes for you.