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Economics Personality: An Evolutionary Process

My Economics Personality I study and "do" economics all the time. But have you ever stepped back and thought about your economics personality? For me, it has been evolving throughout my life. When I was younger, I would have identified much more with economists like John Maynard Keynes or Paul Samuelson—focusing on centralized equilibrium models, state intervention, and macroeconomic levers. Today, my economic personality has evolved toward liberty, spontaneous order, and rea

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Demystifying Backpropagation: The 300-Year-Old Calculus Rule Powering Modern AI

Modern artificial intelligence systems rely on an underlying algorithm to learn: Backpropagation. Whether predicting text, recognizing images, or translating languages, neural networks depend on this universal mechanism. The core mathematical mechanism behind backpropagation is not a recent invention. The algorithm relies on a calculus rule formulated by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1676: the chain rule. To understand how modern AI works, we examine how this centuries-old mat

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Bridging the AI Divide: Moving Higher Education from Hesitation to Integration

"If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they will rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks." — Socrates (in Plato's Phaedrus) Educators have long questioned how new tools alter human cognition. Socrates was not warning against algorithms, but the newest technology of his era: the written word. New classroom technologies seld

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Making the Invisible Hand Visible: How Choice Architecture Operationalizes Economics

The Invisible Hand is an observation of our human nature. Adam Smith studied how people naturally operate within social settings. He then applied those behavioral insights to explain how societies generate lasting wealth. Long-term empirical trends support his core insights. Over the past two centuries, global economic data reveals unprecedented rises in real gross domestic product per capita alongside dramatic increases in global life expectancy. In 1776, Adam Smith publishe

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The RepDem Trap and the Fight for a Real Republic

Every election cycle, the same question arrives with predictable urgency. My wife asks it with a mix of frustration and genuine curiosity: "Why do you throw your vote away?" She watches me mark the box for a Libertarian candidate—someone with zero chance of occupying the Oval Office—and sees a wasted opportunity to influence the immediate lesser of two evils. To her, a vote is a tactical wager. To me, it is a moral declaration. I understand her perspective. In a binary system

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Jeff Hulett

Apr 47 min read

The RepDem Duopoly: How a Collusive Oligopoly is Cannibalizing the American Economy

Since the inauguration of the second Trump administration in 2025, the American business community has found itself in an uncharacteristic state of alarm. The common grievances echo through the halls of the Chamber of Commerce and across the factory floors of the Midwest: a sharp "Trump Slump" in international tourism fueled by new visa hurdles and negative sentimant; chronic labor shortages in agriculture and construction due to aggressive deportation mandates; a supply chai

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Jeff Hulett

Mar 226 min read

America's Mega Forces - Making the most in a time of change

In recent years, the United States has seen a significant intensification of immigration enforcement. According to data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). There are a couple mega forces uniquely playing out in the United States. What are they and how do we adapt?

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Jeff Hulett

Jan 2718 min read

The Blue Pill Trap: The Simple Step to Escape the Matrix of Endless Partisan War

Are you trapped in the RepDem Matrix? This is a place where you feel emotionally drained by political theater, experiencing intense feelings about budget shutdowns, government layoffs, or your "most hated politician." While exhausting, you feel strangely compelled to reengage the anger, even as it exhausts you. What if you are being played? The 1999 sci-fi classic The Matrix was an amazing, once-in-a-generation movie. It offered an incredibly original dystopian future sto

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Jeff Hulett

Oct 30, 20255 min read