I did my first H-1B visa interview 25 years ago as a consular officer in India, and from the start saw that something was badly wrong with this program. I just published a report on H-1Bs, and this week, I interviewed a panel of experts to discuss the visa at the Heritage Foundation. Our consensus: […]

Elon Musk said on the Katie Miller podcast that the current threat environment from radical left-wing activists remains too dangerous for him to appear in public, especially after the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. Miller asked Musk: “When’s the last time you did something extremely ordinary like go to Target or CVS?” Musk responded:  “I can’t […]

Consensus was expecting a hawkish rate cut, and while it got the cut, the hawkish elements – more dissenters, higher dots, a pushback by Powell during the presser – did not not materalize, and instead we have a low-grade revolt by the non-voters at the Fed (6 dots for unch today, only 2 dissents, more […]

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, McDonald’s in the Netherlands unleashed a Christmas ad that, much like its ‘food’ has left the world gagging on the plastic aftertaste. The entire spot—talking cookies, uncanny animated characters, and a vibe that screams “please make it stop”—was 100% AI-generated, and viewers are torching it as creepy, lifeless, and the […]

So already we can see that ~$140,000 is not some mythical number that is unattainable by American families. For the type of family Mr. Green is interested in, half of the families are already at this income level. True, that does mean that half are also below it, but the $80,000 figure he keeps using as […]