Kyla’s Newsletter

30 Days, 9 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go?

Traveling the country to understand it

Nov 13 • 

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October 2025

How Bible Sales and Chipotle Explain the Economy

rate cuts, risk, and the casino economy

Oct 30 • 

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Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee on What the Job Market Is Really Telling Us

Inside the Chicago Fed’s effort to measure work in an era of fuzzy data and fragile confidence

Oct 9 • 

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AI Is the Market, and the Market Is the Government

AI, Gold, and the New Logic of Governance

Oct 8 • 

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September 2025

Who's Getting Rich Off Your Attention?

How concentrated ownership and automated manipulation reshape democracy

Sep 24 • 

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6 Economic Lessons from Books About Power, Propaganda, and Decline

What Tolkien, Canetti, Girard and more can teach us about discord, scapegoats, and the test of institutions.

Sep 18 • 

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Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack on the Risks Markets Are Missing Right Now

The importance of Fed independence, sticky inflation, AI’s impact on entry-level work, and why she still leans modestly restrictive

Sep 3 • 

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August 2025

AI That Works for Workers: Survey Results

How do people actually feel about artificial intelligence in the workplace?

Aug 28 • 

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How AI, Healthcare, and Labubu Became the American Economy

The Three Americas and aspirational displacement

Aug 7 • 

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July 2025

Zero-sum Thinking and the Labor Market

is college worth it? and other questions about the state of things

Jul 23 • 

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From Dollar Dominance to the Slop Machine

Part 2: China, energy, and extraction versus creation

Jul 8 • 

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June 2025

Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely

attention and speculation as primary economic drivers

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