Source: Coyote Blog
by Warren Meyer

“Yes the middle class is shrinking — because people in it are becoming richer. They are not (on average, certainly there are individuals who go up and down) getting poorer because the poorest band on this chart is shrinking even faster than the middle class. This is an enormous freaking victory for most everyone, but yet we are electing radical communists to tear down capitalism. Incredible.” (11/11/25)

https://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2025/11/the-middle-class-is-shrinking-and-thats-a-good-thing.html

Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan

“When the truth is ugly, people lie. That’s human nature. Psychologists call this Social Desirability Bias, and it’s the intellectual foundation of my forthcoming Unbeatable: The Brutally Honest Case for Free Markets. But there’s one classic ugly inquiry which, as best as I recall, I’ve never known to be answered with a bald-faced lie. It’s a high-stakes question that children often ask their parents. The question: ‘Will you die one day?’ Faced with this query of existential dread, plenty of parents respond evasively — or just ignore the question.” (11/11/25)

https://www.betonit.ai/p/will-you-die-one-day

Source: Orange County Register
by Kyle Handley

“At the U.S. Supreme Court last week, the government’s lawyer argued that President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, issued under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), aren’t really taxes at all. ‘The fact that they raise revenue is only incidental,’ he told the Court. ‘The tariffs would be most effective … if no person ever paid them.’ That defense captures the problem with emergency economics: Tariffs that raise no revenue still raise uncertainty. They tax planning, investment, and trust. A tariff no one pays is self-defeating. It deters trade and investment without delivering even the limited fiscal benefit of real revenue. The result is slower growth, higher prices, and weaker supply chains. Chief Justice John Roberts pressed that point, describing the government’s reasoning as ‘two-facing.'” (11/11/25)

https://www.ocregister.com/2025/11/11/the-supreme-court-is-right-to-question-this-trade-war/

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“While American progressives celebrate the electoral triumph of self-labeled socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, American conservatives are lamenting his victory of socialism over right-wing ‘capitalism.’ But the discomforting reality is that although conservatives are loathe to acknowledge the reality of their own mindsets, they are, in principle, as committed to socialism as Mamdani. When it comes to socialism, the difference between Mamdani and conservatives is one of degree, not one of principle. Mamdani simply takes socialism further than conservatives do.” (11/11/25)

https://www.fff.org/2025/11/11/left-wing-socialism-versus-right-wing-socialism/

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“Pentagon contractor Elon Musk, currently the richest person alive, has posted a video clip showing off how people can use his AI video generation tool Grok Imagine to create the image of a woman’s face saying ‘I will always love you.’ The AI-generated clip looks fake and creepy, and everything about Musk’s post is downright depressing. But it’s not quite as fake, creepy and depressing as the capitalist dystopia which birthed it. … The underlying argument for continuing with the capitalism experiment even though it’s destroying our ecosystem is that these megabillionaires will save us all with green energy and carry humanity’s surplus population out into the stars to colonize the galaxy, which is a terrible vision for the future in and of itself. But that isn’t even happening.” (11/11/25)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/11/11/this-is-all-our-rulers-are-offering-us/