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A Fragile Ceasefire Carries Huge Hopes
The Iran war ceasefire is as fragile as a spring snowflake. Circumstances may have changed substantially by the time you…
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Painful Dose Of Reality Only Known Treatment For Political IRS
When a patient presents a pattern, a persistent psychosis, the ailment deserves a name. For modern Democrats, call it Inconvenient…
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Three Takeaways From DHS Shutdown
As was true for last summer’s government shutdown, the current Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown is 100% the Democrats’…
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New Data Confirm Pundits Wrong On Economy Again, But At Least They’re Consistent
Guess what! Inflation, growth, jobs: Conventional wisdom from America’s economic punditry was across-the-board wrong. Again. At the year’s start the…
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Five Essential Lessons From Shutdown
Many lessons appear from the longest government shutdown on record, some obvious, some subtle. The most obvious is that the…
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JD FOSTER: An Election Unlike Any Other
Republicans were roundly thrashed in the 2025 mid-mid-terms while Democrats found slivers of hope and energy. Attention now turns to…
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Of Mamdani, Ruin, And The Big ‘No’
Think Berlin Gedachtniskirche (with an umlaut); in English, the “Memory Church,” a ruin of a once beautiful church in downtown…
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Buckle Up, America. The Shutdown Fight Appears To Be Far From Over
Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly said on Sunday the shutdown could end this week if only “Republicans come to the…
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New Jobs Report Shows Economy In Healthy Transition
The latest Labor Department jobs report shows native-born workers gaining jobs rapidly while foreign-born workers are losing jobs, netting to…
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A Data Dependent Fed Is A Perpetually Too Late Fed
One phrase heard repeatedly in recent years is that monetary policy will be “data dependent.” In his Jackson Hole remarks,…
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No, SCOTUS, The Federal Reserve Isn’t An ‘Independent Agency’
The Supreme Court was surely correct in its recent majority decision acknowledging President Trump acted within his authority in removing…
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There Is No Recession Coming
Monthly economic data rarely provide confident clarity, and this week’s was no exception. But the story is a good one…
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Will Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs End In Disaster Or Prosperity?
“Liberation Day” has come. So what does it mean? Beats the hell out of me. What we know is that…
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Senate Republicans Could Pull Off The Unthinkable In Midterms
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is nothing if not an optimist. As Senate Republican Campaign Committee lead, Scott hopes to…
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Trump Is Right About The Debt Limit — Kill It
President-elect Donald Trump has called for either eliminating the debt limit or pushing it far into the future. Many conservatives…
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