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February 9th, 2026
Bill Maher Laments Rise of Gambling Culture
Comedian Bill Maher slammed America’s gambling culture on HBO’s “Real Time,” telling millennials and young men to stop giving up on controlling their destiny.
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January 27th, 2026
Golden Age vs. Price of Gold
The metal’s rise to $5,000 is a market vote of declining confidence.  
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January 14th, 2026
How to Shrink Credit for the Poor
Like Bernie Sanders and AOC, Trump wants to fix prices on credit cards.
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January 14th, 2026
Affordability Problem in One Chart
Wages aren’t rising fast enough to counter still rising prices.
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January 12th, 2026
Bad Economic Policy
The president has offered four ideas in the past week that are all a huge problem — for the people these ideas are supposed to be helping.
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January 12th, 2026
The Disappearing Middle Class
Yes, the middle class is hollowing out—because more are rising upward.
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December 29th, 2025
The Scrooges of 2025
Unlike Dickens’s famous miser, they’ve spent billions on philanthropy—but ignored the disastrous effects their efforts have had on poor and working-class people.
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December 23rd, 2025
In private, some Republicans worry after Trump’s primetime economy speech that changing voter perceptions may be a slog. Source: ‘Execution was abysmal’: Trump economy speech doesn’t meet GOP hopes – POLITICO
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December 19th, 2025
Why So Many Bankruptcies?
Despite President Trump’s claims of an “A+++++” economy, rising bankruptcy rates among businesses, farmers, and health care companies indicate that the economy is facing significa…
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December 12th, 2025
Pouring Gasoline on the Affordability Fire
Our affordability crisis is actually a government subsidy crisis.
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