Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Harshit Singh
“Anyone who has spent time in a group project recognizes an uncomfortable pattern. A small number of people end up carrying most of the work, while the rest contribute unevenly at best. Look at almost any workplace, and the same pattern emerges: a handful of employees are responsible for a surprisingly large share of what actually gets done. Walk through any city, and a few restaurants stay full while most sit half-empty. On streaming platforms, a small number of songs absorb most of the listening. Seen once, it looks like a coincidence. Seen everywhere, it starts to look like a law. That’s because it is one.” (07/15/26)
https://fee.org/articles/the-geometry-of-advantage/
Source: The Nation
by Paris Marx
“The real risks of AI are not the existential ones that people like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei obsess about and that Sanders has taken to repeating. Instead, they stem from the more tangible effects AI has on regular people’s lives: how dependence on chatbots can affect cognition and critical thinking, create addiction that isolates people from their human networks, and can even coach them down harmful paths of self-harm and suicide. That’s not to mention how AI has polluted the information environment, enabled the creation of nonconsensual deepfakes, and is actively degrading cultural production. While she may have been an ally of Sanders on the data center moratorium, Ocasio-Cortez does not seem to have fallen for the deceptive narratives of the AI industry in the way that he has.” (07/15/26)
https://archive.is/C3vL0
Source: CNBC
“Wholesale prices unexpectedly fell in June as sliding energy costs helped brighten the inflation picture, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. The produce price index posted a seasonally adjusted 0.3% decline for the month, compared with the Dow Jones consensus estimate for the final demand cost measure to be unchanged. On an annual basis, the index indicated a 5.5% inflation rate. The May reading was revised sharply lower, from an initially reported increase of 1.1% to 0.6%. Excluding food and energy, the core PPI rose 0.2%, against the outlook for a 0.3% increase. The core PPI less trade services rose 0.1% and was up 5.1% from a year ago.” (07/15/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/15/wholesale-inflation-june-2026-.html
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Lindsey Graham To Be Suitably ‘Honored’ By Senate.” (07/15/26)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1dGYllnoRBoKX
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie
“In the 2016 Brexit referendum, the loudest institutional voices, the CBI, the IMF, the Treasury, most of the FTSE 100, and Downing Street itself, were all lined up behind Remain. Business leaders who broke ranks knew they would be cast as reckless or self-interested, and all three took real flak for it. Dyson in particular was accused of hypocrisy given that some of his manufacturing was already overseas, and commentators seized on that. Martin faced boycott calls and mockery in the press. Going against your own trade bodies and much of the commentariat, in a campaign that quickly became personal took some courage.” (07/15/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/brave-business-leaders-brexit
Source: The Erick Erickson Show
by Erick-Woods Erickson
“New York just became the first state in the country to sign a moratorium on data centers. I want you to sit with that, because it tells you everything about the two paths in front of us. One path builds the infrastructure that runs the next fifty years of the American economy. The other talks itself into a moral panic, bans the future, and then acts surprised when the jobs and the money show up in somebody else’s state. I am here to defend the data centers, and I want to walk you through why, because most of the fear you are hearing is manufactured.” (07/15/26)
https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-building-the-data-centers
Source: Politico
“French President Emmanuel Macron’s party is suing far-right National Rally presidential candidate Marine Le Pen for allegedly using its name in a campaign slogan. The party, Renaissance, said that Le Pen’s slogan — ‘For France, the Renaissance’ — amounted to an ‘unauthorized appropriation of its political identity and trademarks.’ Le Pen formally launched her presidential bid last week after a court cleared her to run despite being found guilty of embezzling funds from the European Parliament — a charge she continues to deny and has appealed to France’s highest court.” (07/15/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-party-sues-marine-le-pen-over-campaign-slogan
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on the growing number of threats being made against public officials, as detailed by Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.” (07/15/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/5962178-rising-july-15-2026/
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jessica Rose
“I guess there are subdivisions of automatic devices that can be split based on function. Some devices help and are ‘non-invasive’ in terms of imposing on the human part of humanity. Some devices are quite ‘invasive’ in this same way. Many – if not all – devices made in the last century fall into the latter subdivision. I think of these as inflictions upon humanity masquerading as ‘convenience’, as opposed to devices that make our human lives better. Many examples exist and play a daily role in our human lives today.” (07/15/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/has-automation-stolen-what-it-means-to-be-human/
Source: Townhall
by John Stossel
“A few years ago, nuclear power looked doomed. Plants were shutting down. Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won applause bragging about closing a nuclear plant ’14 years ahead of schedule.’ ‘Why would they applaud?’ asks former nuclear engineer Ray Rothrock in my new video. ‘They shut down New York’s finest source of clean energy.’ Rothrock has met with presidents, trying to persuade them to embrace nuclear power, but ‘nothing was ever addressed.’ Until now.” (07/15/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2026/07/15/nuclear-power-n2679445
