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HBO for Sale, Democracy for Lease
There are corporate deals that feel like weather—impersonal, atmospheric. And then there are deals where someone is adjusting the thermostat: deciding who gets heat and who gets frost. The battle for Warner Bros. Discovery belongs to the second category.
The Movement Tax: Noncompetes Cage Workers
Thirty million workers bound by noncompetes; one quarter licensed with credentials that won't cross state lines. These are not guardrails—they are tollgates. A Friction Index maps the cost of movement; a Mobility Atlas charts the reform.
The Price of Roots: Licensing Immobility
Thirty million Americans are bound by noncompete clauses; one in four workers faces licensing barriers. These restraints suppress wages, block entrepreneurship, and turn exit into a debt event. The fix: ban broad restraints, price the narrow ones, port credentials.
The Profit-Price Channel: How Market Power Turns Shocks into Inflation
Between what we pay and what it cost to make runs a corridor of hidden doors—contracts, fees, platforms, habits—where a quiet arithmetic decides how much of a shock becomes a price and how much becomes a profit. The profit-price channel, mapped with equations and evidence.