Economy

The FDA's ham-fisted push on hormone therapy has created shortages for women who depend on estrogen patches. This is bureaucracy as healthcare policy, and it's failing real patients.

When Smoothie King trends nationally, it's not a health craze. It's a distress signal from an economy where workers can't afford to stop moving.

Millions of Americans are locked out of homeownership or trapped in homes they can't sell. This didn't happen by accident.

Kidde's smoke alarms were sold through Amazon and recalled for potentially causing fires. This is what regulatory capture looks like at retail scale.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard declares the Strait of Hormuz closed to maritime traffic, threatening 20 million barrels of daily oil shipments and triggering fears of a global energy crisis.

With the Strait of Hormuz under threat and oil prices poised to surge, American consumers face the prospect of $3+ gasoline and rising costs across the economy.

With commodity markets closed over the weekend, analysts project a $10-$20 oil price surge when trading resumes. Defense stocks positioned for gains while Polymarket sees $500M in Iran war bets.

Forget the geopolitics for a minute. Here's what the US-Iran conflict actually means for the prices you pay at the pump, the grocery store, and the retirement account you're trying not to check.

Global energy markets brace for chaos as US-Iran war threatens the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint. Oil analysts project 15-20% price spikes, with every sector from airlines to agriculture facing potential disruption.

While Washington debates abstractions, the Gulf Coast city of Corpus Christi quietly represents everything the coastal consensus has abandoned — and everything worth fighting for.

The applause for Trump's tariff push at the State of the Union was real. So is the coming price hike. Both things are true, and only one of them matters to your wallet.

The New York Islanders can't make the moves they need at the trade deadline because the organization's deeper dysfunction runs all the way to the top — and no roster move fixes that.

Greer's tariff announcement isn't economic nationalism run amok. It's the first coherent use of trade leverage this country has attempted in thirty years.

A Mediterranean fast-casual chain built by immigrants is beating Wall Street expectations. Washington keeps making the next CAVA harder to build.

Waymo is expanding to Texas and Florida. Self-driving is the future. Whether it's an American future depends on regulators who are still debating the past.

The Federal Reserve's new hobby of opining on AI and labor markets isn't economic analysis. It's mission creep from an institution that can't manage its core mandate.

Universities charge $300,000 for a product of declining value. The correction is coming.

My plumber makes more than my lawyer friend. He has zero debt, works six months a year, and his phone rings off the hook. Maybe the smart kids went to trade school.

Nothing is free. Especially not college. Here are the receipts.

I treat patients every morning and fight regulations every afternoon.

I run a feed store in East Texas. Let me explain what the GDP numbers look like from behind a cash register.

The Federal Reserve promised to tame inflation without recession. The data suggests fiction.