by Daniel Brouse October 13, 2025 The Theory: Innovation, Growth, and Creative Destruction Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt Nobel Prize winning work advanced what’s known as endogenous growth theory, which emphasizes that technological progress is not something that just happens outside the economy (“exogenously”) but rather emerges from within it — from incentives, […]
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Creative Destruction in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: How Endogenous Growth Theory Explains Today’s AI Stock Market Bubble
Déjà Vu Economics: How Trump’s Deregulation and Tariff Policies Mirror the Road to the Great Depression
by Daniel Brouse October 13, 2025 In 1919, General Motors transformed the American economy by founding the General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC), a revolutionary move that allowed customers to buy cars on credit. This innovation made cars accessible to the masses through installment plans and helped ignite the era of consumer financing. What began as […]
Global Energy Shift and the Climate Crisis: The U.S. Falling Behind
by Daniel Brouse October 7, 2025 Over the past year, solar and wind energy worldwide generated more electricity than coal, marking a historic milestone in global renewable energy deployment. China alone added more solar and wind capacity than the rest of the world combined, highlighting how rapidly the United States is losing both economic and […]
America’s Bankruptcy Wave: How Trump’s Fiscal Policies and Economic Mismanagement Are Accelerating Business Collapses
by Daniel Brouse October 7, 2025 For 2025, U.S. bankruptcy filings have surged, marking one of the steepest upward trends in more than a decade. The spike reflects the combined weight of rising interest rates, historic consumer debt levels, and mounting economic uncertainty. Both consumer and corporate bankruptcies are climbing sharply compared to previous years, […]
Neptune Flood IPO: Riding the Rising Tide of Climate Risk
by Daniel Brouse October 1, 2025 Neptune Flood, the largest private flood insurance company in the U.S., went public today, October 1, 2025, with its initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “NP.” The St. Petersburg, Florida-based company raised $368 million by selling over 18 million shares at […]
Trump’s Bailouts: Socialism for Farmers, Handouts Abroad, and a Wrecking Ball for U.S. Taxpayers
Donald Trump has once again taken to social media to tout a taxpayer-funded “solution” to problems of his own making. After launching destructive tariff wars and pushing through regressive tax policies, he is now bailing out U.S. soy farmers left devastated by his economic blunders. The irony is glaring: a president who endlessly denounces “socialism” […]
Trump Faces Over 300 Lawsuits for Executive Overreach and Harm to U.S. Citizens
Donald Trump is now facing more than 300 lawsuits challenging his executive overreach, authoritarian policies, and actions that have caused widespread harm to American citizens. The sheer volume of litigation is unprecedented in modern U.S. history and reflects the growing backlash against his administration’s unchecked power and disregard for constitutional limits. A large portion of […]
100% TACO: Trump’s Reckless Tariff on Life-Saving Medicines
Protectionism, White Nationalism, and the Collapse of U.S. Economic Credibility Donald Trump has just announced one of the most dangerous and reckless policies of his presidency: a 100% tariff on all branded or patented pharmaceutical products, unless the manufacturer is currently building a plant in the United States. “Starting October 1st, 2025, we will be […]
Microsoft Cuts Off Israeli Military Unit Over Gaza Surveillance Scandal
September 26, 2025 — A Breaking Human Rights and Technology Story Israel’s military has been accused of using Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure, to conduct mass surveillance on millions of Palestinians, feeding into a system of targeted killings, forced displacement, and economic suppression. The surveillance campaign, run largely by Israel’s cyber-intelligence arm Unit 8200, reportedly included […]
Former Fed Chairs Unite Against Trump in Defense of Central Bank Independence
by Daniel Brouse September 25, 2025 On September 25, 2025, a landmark amicus brief was submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court by every living former Chair of the Federal Reserve. The bipartisan group urged the Court to block former President Donald Trump from firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook while her legal challenge to her […]