A framework for reading any headline:

1. Who benefits from this outcome?

2. What incentive structure produced this result?

3. What constraints prevented a different outcome?

4. If these incentives persist, what happens next?

Most news coverage answers none of these questions. It tells you what happened and who is angry about it. That is the least useful layer of information.

The structural layer — incentives, constraints, feedback loops — is where understanding lives. Once you train yourself to read for structure instead of narrative, headlines start predicting themselves.

This is what we do here daily. Follow along.

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