I Spent 28 Years Arresting Criminals. Rothbard Was Right All Along
The year was 2016. I was deputy commander of a Military Police battalion in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods ...
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Four US tech giants spent roughly $410 billion on capital expenditure last year, much of it tied to AI, and are steering toward roughly $725 billion in 2026
In 2025, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta between them spent around $410 billion in capital expenditure. Their current 2026 plans ...
My Mother Died. Then I Spent 8 Hours on Hold With the IRS
Not long ago, the Internal Revenue Service boasted that taxpayers who called the agency could expect to reach a live ...
Psychology suggests that people who fear AI are often not only afraid of the technology itself — they’re afraid of what it threatens to erase: the status, competence, identity, and sense of usefulness they spent years building.
In late 2024, the Pew Research Center surveyed more than 5,000 employed Americans and found that 52 per cent were ...
Wall Street is pricing a US-Iran peace deal that Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and the chair of Senate Armed Services spent Sunday publicly trying to kill
Brent crude fell roughly 4% on Sunday, the dollar index slipped, and S&P futures opened the week with a bid ...
AI doesn’t understand the world yet, and the billion-dollar race to fix that shows the industry is starting to move beyond the architecture it spent three years selling as the path to general intelligence
In March 2026, a startup with no product raised more than a billion dollars on the premise that the dominant ...
People who keep their phone face-down on every table aren’t always being secretive, they may have spent years learning that every unexpected notification meant someone needed something from them
A table for four. Drinks ordered. The person across from you slides their phone out of their pocket, glances at ...
What If You Invested Every Dollar You Spent on Streaming Subscriptions?
It starts with Netflix. Then comes Spotify, because you can’t stand the ads. Then Disney+ for one show, Amazon Prime ...
There’s a specific kind of person who has always been good at solitude — the kind who reads, walks, gardens, thinks — and the world spent their younger years asking them why they weren’t more social, and now those same people are aging into the version of life that quietly suits them, and the loneliness epidemic everyone is naming is mostly happening to other people
Everyone’s wringing their hands about a loneliness epidemic. Fine. But it’s not hitting all of us the same way. Some ...
Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran has never saved a dime, and spent $66m from real estate empire sale
For most Americans, saving money (or at least trying to) is a financial priority: It means a safety net in ...
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