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Train Drain

…has also encumbered the company with soaring financial debt. From the end of 2017 to the end of 2023, the burden of UP’s debt soared from 1.6 times its net…

The People vs Wealth

…Action was required.  Wealth’s response was to pejoratively label these threats as socialism, communism, or un-American.  And, to get organized.  The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (1938) and the House Un-American…

. . . the Sleeping Giant is Roaring

…they publish… The new rules give the Pentagon wide latitude to label journalists as security threats and revoke passes for those who obtain or publish information the agency says is…

Labor versus Market and Demand

…are the risks of it unraveling into a recession? Powell’s label of “curious” got me thinking about the other “curiosities” of the labor market during this cycle. The pandemic recession…