For many Americans, the present economic circumstances feel uneasy, and the future feels worse. They direct their anxiety at other countries, which are supposedly taking advantage of us through trade, or at artificial intelligence, with its potential to upend jobs and concentrate power. Lawmakers respond by offering antitrust, industrial and trade policies. It is striking, then, that some of the clearest guidance for this moment comes from a book published 250 years ago today

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Young and working-class people aren’t getting on the property ladder anymore.

Brookings experts weigh in

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DM Good morning! Based on our many prior related conversations, today I'd like to share a differing, perhaps more expansive, perspective of the Universal Holophren™. Attached you'll see: 1) A "hierarchical arrangement" graphic (as opposed to the prior "relational" or integrated view we've discussed extensively); thus consider: 2) How Holoprhrens engage WITHIN Pantakinesis™ , ... but only to the limits of respective "vanishing points; " 3)The various "contexts" of vanishing po

Philosopher Sven Nyholm on reclaiming achievement from the machines. Excerpt: " Above all, Nyholm pushes back against a seductive illusion. AI summaries and tidy three-point answers may free up time — perhaps, he adds wryly, for watching more TikTok videos — but they do not produce mastery. They can create the appearance of learning without its substance. When people later face situations that demand real judgment, they discover the gap. Excellence, Nyholm reminds us, grows

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DM Regarding our many past conversations regarding Holphrenic™ implications of Hoffman's "Fitness Beats Truth" (F>T) and my "Fitness Equals Truth™" (F=T™) conjectures, and merits thereof; as I now advance my incubation on these topics, I am coming to realization the differences of these have far more substance, implications and applications. This is especially so when you add a third construct of "Truth Beats Fitness™," (T>F™) ... which also is prevalent in personal and colle

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