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We Used to Be Wise is the accounting Zeigler has been threatening to write for years. Nineteen chapters, one indictment. The premise is simple and the evidence is overwhelming: in August 1971, Lewis Powell wrote a memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that read like a battle plan.
Prices didn’t just rise. They moved. Not evenly. They moved toward the people who can still pay. And stayed there. For a long time, the United States ran on a simple assumption: build for the middle. Price for the middle. Sell in volume. Cars, houses, appliances, tuition. Everything pointed
Written Saturday, April 18, 2026 Trump declared victory Friday. Iran's foreign minister had announced that the Strait of Hormuz was fully open. Oil dropped twelve percent. Trump posted on Truth Social that Iran had agreed never to close the strait again. A great and brilliant day for the