Archive - Kyla’s Newsletter

Is AI Going to Destroy Our Lives or Not?

dimensionality, freeze-dried food, the SpaceX IPO, and what to do about all of it

May 28 • kyla scanlon

March 2026

The Ozempicization of the Economy

Biohacking, gambling, and war

Mar 26 • kyla scanlon

February 2026

Buying Futures, Renting the Past: How Speculation and Nostalgia Became the Economy

Super Bowl ads, Jesus derivatives, and Gen Alpha's return to the theater

Feb 12 • kyla scanlon

January 2026

The Great Entertainment

Can you govern the world like a reality TV show?

Jan 21 • kyla scanlon

San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly and Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin on What's Actually Happening in the Economy

Now vs the 1970s/1990s, the persistence of uncertainty, and why cranes matter

Jan 9 • kyla scanlon

December 2025

Everyone is Gambling and No One is Happy

Vibes, AI, open-mouth coughing, and lessons from 40 weeks of travel

Dec 11, 2025 • kyla scanlon

November 2025

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

Traveling the country to understand it

Nov 13, 2025 • kyla scanlon

October 2025

How Bible Sales and Chipotle Explain the Economy

rate cuts, risk, and the casino economy

Oct 30, 2025 • kyla scanlon

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, 2025 • kyla scanlon

AI Is the Market, and the Market Is the Government

AI, Gold, and the New Logic of Governance

Oct 8, 2025 • kyla scanlon

September 2025

Who's Getting Rich Off Your Attention?

How concentrated ownership and automated manipulation reshape democracy

Sep 24, 2025 • kyla scanlon

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, 2025 • kyla scanlon