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MAGA collapse: Trump’s new Wall Street venture is already a failure
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (246+ words) With Truth Social traffic cratering and the company bleeding over $712 million, critics warn the president’s politically motivated stock funds are a desperate, high-risk gamble....
Ticking time bomb: The real reason everything is about to cost more
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (288+ words) The U.S. national debt, which recently topped $40 trillion, is “one of the many signs of an economy and of an empire that is now in decline,”...
Panic as Trump’s rotten economy sends traders 'scrambling"
1+ week, 5+ day ago (301+ words) President Donald Trump can brag all he wants about the economy and make the biggest boasts at campaign stops, but Bloomberg says Wall Street investors just aren’t buying it. “Traders are scrambling to shield their portfolios against further losses in…...
Trump’s history of bankruptcy now his greatest gift to America: economist
1+ week, 5+ day ago (39+ words) Henrietta Treyz, director of economic policy at Veda partners, reminded MS NOW anchor Katy Tur that President Donald Trump had a huge hand in putting the nation on the cusp of financial failure due to the nation’s exploding debt....
The paralyzing intel report that obliterated my peace of mind
2+ week, 1+ day ago (140+ words) Have you ever woken in the morning steeped in a sense of nonspecific dread? It’s undefined, and even though you have no idea what it’s about, it’s palpable. You recognize that it’s just a feeling, not a fact, yet the…...
Trump is hiding a crippling reality behind $40 trillion nightmare: insider
2+ week, 4+ day ago (50+ words) According to a top economist for the president who created the most jobs during his terms of any in recorded history, President Donald Trump is causing long-term damage to the US economy... and only following his accomplished predecessor's example can…...
Trump’s new 'fantastic story' is 'virtually impossible': top economist
2+ week, 5+ day ago (216+ words) Last week, the U.S. reached an alarming new milestone when the national debt surpassed $40 trillion. In the days that followed, the Trump administration voiced a solution that a leading budget economist has declared a “fantastic story” that is “virtually impossible.”...
Trump’s war on federal oversight has watchdogs 'scared to death"
3+ week, 2+ day ago (369+ words) Trump’s war on federal oversight has watchdogs 'scared to death' Alternet Trump’s war on federal oversight has watchdogs 'scared to death' After the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, Congress carried out a series of reforms that included strengthening federal watchdogs and…...
Republicans beg for help in deep-red Ohio as 'toxic brand' threatens party
3+ week, 4+ day ago (348+ words) U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, a Republican from Mississippi, John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, and Tim Scott, a Republican from South Carolina, during a ceremony for late Republican Senator Lindsey Graham in the rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC,…...
Conservatives 'consider the unthinkable' as rural Texans turn on MAGA gov
3+ week, 4+ day ago (28+ words) Democrats haven't won a statewide race in GOP-dominated Texas since the 1990s. But a U.S. Senate race in the Lone Star State, according to polls, is highly competitive....