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August 14th, 2025
Amazon Is Buying Bee – AI Bracelet That Records Everything
By: Nicole Nguyen – wsj.com – July 23, 2025  The tech giant’s acquisition is its latest move into the burgeoning AI-gadget business. It’s funny. After a decade of Amazon AMZN 3.37% saying Alexa isn’t listening to your every word, the company is buying a bracelet that can. Bee’s wearable transcribes all the conversations in your day—including when you talk to...
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August 12th, 2025
Debanking Trump
The scale of the effort to “debank” Donald Trump because of pressure from Biden administration regulators went far beyond JPMorgan and Bank of America, The Post has learned. At least 10 other financial institutions closed their windows to the billionaire real estate tycoon over his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill ­melee. The moves came in the months after...
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August 11th, 2025
Guaranteed Annual Income Flop
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 8, 2025 A test of free $1,000 grants showed few social or natalist benefits. OpenResearch says the study showed that “parents improved their parenting practices and made meaningful investments in their children and themselves.” But drill down, and the findings are uninspiring. Those who received the $1,000 payments did report better parenting...
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August 8th, 2025
Judicial Activism Won’t Restore Planned Parenthood
Trump kept his promise to defund Big Abortion. Rogue judges can’t stop what Congress has done.
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August 8th, 2025
Worker Rebatement Act
Sen. Josh Hawley has proposed the American Worker Rebate Act, which would hand out billions of taxpayer dollars to offset the tariffs imposed by President Trump, but critics argue that the plan is …
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August 8th, 2025
Pharmaceuticals and Tariffs
President Trump has imposed a 15 percent tariff on most items in a trade agreement with the European Union, with pharmaceuticals excluded pending an ongoing U.S. investigation, but Trump is still p…
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August 8th, 2025
Debanking Coming to an End
Imagine an individual with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash who wants to put his money in a bank, a big bank — in fact, the biggest banks in America — and they won’t let him.
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August 6th, 2025
Real Costs of Defense Budget
The U.S. is quietly ramping up defense spending to nearly $1 trillion, despite claims to the contrary.
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August 6th, 2025
Trump Executive Order on Debanking
By: Dylan Tokar – wsj.com – August 5, 2025 The president recounted his experiences when asked about an executive order the White House is preparing. The White House is preparing an executive order that threatens fines for banks that deny services on political grounds, citing the experiences of conservative groups and crypto companies, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. In...
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August 4th, 2025
Trump Economy Stumbles
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 1, 2025 The President has his new world tariff order in place, but jobs and growth don’t look so good. The details in the report provide little solace. The jobless rate ticked up only to 4.25% from 4.1%, but that was in part because the labor force continued to shrink. The labor...
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