The increase in tariff revenue from 2024 to 2025 is equivalent to .3% of GDP. So not nothing, but not very much.

It would be weird if this hadn’t happened. It’s Davos. It’s supposed to be corrupt and terrible!

A year ago I invented the term "surveillance pricing" to describe companies taking personal data and weaponizing it to set individualized prices for you. Just a year later, a bill released today proposes banning surveillance pricing. I talked to the author, @RepCasar:

Good amicus submission from Trump antitrust enforcers on break-ups. @AAGSlater

"Businesses should not be allowed to trap consumers in costly subscriptions by making it difficult to unsubscribe," @SenAmyKlobuchar & colleagues write. Great to see leaders in Congress move to protect consumers and demand the FTC reissue the Click-to-Cancel rule.

Brightline is defaulting on its bonds. Turns out private high speed rail likely doesn't work as a financial proposition. But it's good it exists!

'Well, let's hire two women because we can pay them half as much as we will have to pay a man, and we can give them all this other crap work to do because they are women." - Bill Gates, quoted in the book Hard Drive

Looks like Trump is trying to back-door the state AI regulatory ban that was rejected in the Senate 99-1. From today's release of the AI "action plan":

Of course @JustinWolfers lies, Teachout's piece didn't even mention Costco. Wolfers drew his argument from a George Mason libertarian. This corporatist is part of @neeratanden's Project 2029 garbage.

MAHA is now the greatest thing that has ever happened to big food. They can announce superficial changes to their poisonous food (in 2 years! lol) and get a full fledged advertisement from the US government This is the "fat free" advertising craze of the 2000s all over again