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The Bureau of Missing Children | Ben Hunt and Adam Butler on the Broken Math of the American Dream
By Matt Zeigler
|December 19, 2025
The poverty debate that took over social media missed the actual problem. Adam Butler and Ben Hunt dig into precarity instead - why the gap between official metrics and lived reality matters, and what it means when people sense capitalism has failed them without being able to name what comes next.
The Bureau of Missing Children
By Adam Butler
|December 19, 2025
The official inflation rate says 3 percent. Half of young America says they can’t afford the families they want. Adam Butler does the arithmetic, exposing how unreachable housing cascades into a silent foreclosure of marriage, fertility, and the future itself.
Uncomfortably Underwater: When K-Shaped Economics Breaks
By Peter Atwater
|November 7, 2025
The Federal Reserve chairman finally said it out loud: there's "something there" to the K-Shaped Economy. But now that everyone knows about it—from Wall Street to Glenn Beck's radio show—the real danger begins. Peter Atwater explores what happens when the economic divide shifts from hidden truth to common knowledge, and why a bifurcated economy where one end thrives while the other descends into despair becomes increasingly unstable. A meditation on visibility, inequality, and the tipping point where awareness becomes pressure.
What Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
By Matt Zeigler
|October 21, 2025
When institutional stories stop matching reality, the world changes overnight. Here are three techniques to help spot narrative shifts while they're building towards a shift. If there's one muscle you need to build in 2025, it's "why am I reading this now?"—because the bankruptcies, the whispers, and the hidden disconnects are already here.


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