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Anyone remember back in 2008 when the housing market collapsed and the stock market crashed by more than anytime since the Great Depression?  Apparently the

Before 9/11, U.S. airports had private companies do security screenings at most U.S. airports. Other countries with safety concerns – such as Israel – had

Canada is making a huge mistake in its tit for tar trade strategy (a game they can’t win and only exacerbates the trade war). But

A continuing HOTLINE theme  is that despite Washington’s best efforts to the contrary, over the past several decades the U.S. economy has left rusty old

We keep hearing economists and politicians howling primal screams that the Trump/DOGE strategy of downsizing the government will crash the economy into recession. Apparently, government

Liberty Vittert, a professor of data science at Washington University in St. Louis and the on-air statistician for the NewsNation network, makes a key point:

You may have seen this disturbing fake news headline over the weekend: It’s not true. The GAO can’t overrule Congress or the President. Our source

President Trump says the tariffs on Canada and Mexico are designed to keep fentanyl out of the U.S.  We’re for doing all we can to

We know that many of our readers like President Trump’s tariff policies, and we’ve often supported the negotiating tactic, as well as the reciprocity concept.

The headline number from Friday’s Labor Department jobs report was a 151,000 increase in payroll employment. That’s a decent number. But a second measure (a