Adam Butler on trade policy, political economy, and the structural forces shaping American life.
The following account is reconstructed from documents I obtained in 2022 from a former employee of Prometheus Research Group, a machine-learning laboratory incorporated in Delaware in 2017 and dissolved, per state filings, on 11 March 2021.¹ The documents incl…
The Growth Model of Manufactured Distrust
The Greatest Trick Capital Ever Played: Convincing America the Trade Deficit Was China's Fault
Why industrial and State Capacity "Trump" Military Power Projection in the Competition for Global Alignment
How Game Theory proves libertarian fantasies collapse at scale.
How U.S. Corporations Built a Machine to Import Deflation and Keep the Change.
A More Robust Attempt to Compute the Precarity Line
How America Measures Inflation—and What It Cannot See
This is The Choice Engine.