"Why Factories Are Having Trouble Filling Nearly 400,000 Open Jobs" nytimes.com/2025/06/23/bus…

Filling in for Jim Geraghty for the National Review Morning Jolt, I wrote about the absolutely, positively transformative life and career of FedEx founder Fred Smith, who died over the weekend at 80. nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo…

Oren is blatantly cherry-picking to support his pro-tariff agenda here He cites Japanese data to claim foreign carmakers are absorbing tariffs—but that data doesn't adjust for exchange rates/changing car models The better US data shows *Americans* are paying for Trump's tariffs

Preliminary congratulations to Miami, Charlotte, Atlanta, Dallas, and other Sunbelt financial centers!

With NYC looking like it’s about to hand the keys to a 33-year-old socialist, raising the SALT cap is becoming indefensible. Why should the heartland subsidize billionaires in blue states that keep electing radicals? Rewarding failure with tax breaks is not conservative

Show this video to Zohran. A Cuban seeing Costco for the first time gets emotional witnessing the sheer abundance. People who’ve actually lived under socialism are often the most moved by what markets can create. Capitalism is a miracle, actually.

On June 2, 2025, Sergeant of the Guard Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Jay took his final walk as a Tomb Guard at Arlington National Cemetery. In a powerful farewell, he laid roses at each crypt of the Unknown Soldiers, then walked off the plaza hand in hand with his 8-year-old son, Finn.

Here is the tax bill's workhorse for Growth and higher wages: PERMANENT 100% Expensing.

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The progressive left tells you the 1950s were better, as labor unions were stronger and tax rates were over 90 percent. The MAGA right tells you the 1950s were better, as labor unions were stronger and Harriet was still a tradwife to Ozzie. Both are just wrong. Our politics today

The consequences of a Ukrainian defeat as a direct result of American inconstancy will have farther-reaching implications for U.S. security than the present temporary pressure on its resources. nationalreview.com/corner/in-cutt…

A good report for all the wrong reasons. The drop in the unemployment rate was driven by 130,000 people leaving the labor force. Half of the job gains came from the government sector. Manufacturers cut 7,000 workers.

On this Independence Day, the Marine Corps has opened a new art exhibit at its national museum documenting the service’s 250th anniversary. It’s called “250 Years of Dedication, Determination, and Courage,” and it celebrates the Marines’ most famous moments. But it also features

In a VERY preliminary analysis, Goldman estimates that foreign exporters - mostly Chinese - are thus far paying just 20% of the Trump tariffs' cost, with US consumers & US companies splitting the other 80%. More than 2018-19, but still not much.

Nucor Corporation (the largest steel producer in the U.S.) has raised its price for hot-rolled coil to $910 per ton for all producing mills. That same price was $670 at the start of 2025.

Here's the man killed in an ICE raid at a California farm. Jaime Alanis. He was a tomato-picker. He was working in the fucking California sun to pick tomatoes. Because that's how he could earn a living. He'd worked there for 10 years. And now he's dead. Are you safer?

Great thread. Best part: diff in diff can be read that places not exposed to china shock boomed so china raised employment. Obviously not. Micro does not aggregate.

Oren Cass Inflation is a general rise in the price level, regardless of source. Politicizing the Fed’s response is on you.

Great Moments in Central Planning

During his prime in the ‘80s, no single living person was a bigger hero to little boys in America. We cried when Earthquake broke his ribs or when Warrior pinned him. He was our Babe Ruth. RIP, Terry Bollea, the man, but Hulkamania (the myth) will live forever.