Essays
Essays on how economic, political, and cultural forces shape how we live.
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Nothing Was Sold
The US trade deficit narrowed to $29.4 billion in October 2025—the smallest gap since mid-2009 and a thirty-nine percent narrowing from September 2025. Economists surveyed by Reuters expected approximately $59 billion.
The Return and the Rupture: Trump’s Inauguration as Inflection Point
The inauguration was not a beginning. It was a consequence.