Congress claims to have targeted TikTok because China's government allegedly uses it to spy on Americans. Besides dealing with a nonexistent threat, the bill gives the federal government vast new powers to misuse.
"The state is the greatest monopoly of all; it can brook no rival or colleague in its domain; it is necessarily sole and supreme."
Robert Kagan of the Brookings Institute clearly does not like anyone to challenge his pro-war beliefs. In his view, any opposition to the all-powerful American state is opposition to everything good and true.
As much as its proponents brandish accounting tautologies and purely descriptive claims about government finance, in the end it is 100% political. Their framework is about giving the State maximum power—power to expropriate and power to override what would prevail in unhampered markets.
Since early 2023, full-time jobs have flatlined while part-time jobs have grown. Meanwhile, total number of employed workers has flatlined, too.
What better way to explain the relationship between higher-order and lower-order goods than with food? Here, we look at the falafel sandwich.