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Train Drain

…Hunter Harrison, who pioneered a new business model called “precision-scheduled railroading,” or PSR, that has now been almost universally adopted by the nation’s major railroads. Despite its label, PSR has…

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…

Taking A Stand that Will Hurt

…War–era law, to essentially commandeer a more permissive iteration of the AI, or It could label Anthropic a “supply-chain risk,” meaning that anyone doing business with the U.S. military would…