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China is currently the second largest holder of U.S. national debt ($749 billion in Treasury bonds) by a foreign nation. China invests that money in U.S. bonds to help keep its export prices low. It focuses on export-led growth to help…

This is a question I recently posed to a friend: Why do politicians (on both sides of the fence) keep asking how tax cuts are going to be paid for?It seems to me that recent history has shown that tax cuts pay for themselves. Am…

“Anyone who doesn’t take tariffs seriously is gravely mistaken — tariffs are a weapon of economic warfare. They can have enormous consequences.” Still, American voters are largely indifferent…

Donald Trump spoke virtually to Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on January 24, only four days after he was sworn in as the 47th president of the U.S. A panel of 'experts' gathered to hear his speech, then…

With the California fires, consumer advocates have redoubled their atacks on the "greedy" insurance companies. California congressman John Garamende said from his eight-year experience as insurance commissioner that the insurance…

I’m white, yet I can claim a reparation. You roll your eyes and think, “Another boring article on a subject about which almost everything has been written.” Well, yes and no. First, why reparations? The…

To tax or not to tax tips is currently a hot topic. To tax tips or not sounds simple: yes or no. However, if we say 'yes,' several other issues arise, such as it's not clear how many of these workers will realize any economic…

I watched Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator. (Yeah, I’m a nerd!) It was made in 2023 by (the very objective) BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions for the (equally objective) BBC and PBS. It’s the…

Samuel Perry, a sociologist at the University of Oklahoma, in a New Yorker cover article by Eliza Griswold, said, "The greatest ethnic dog whistle the right has ever come up with is 'Christian' because it means 'people like us,' it means…

Kamala Harris has flip-flopped on her E.V. stance. Her campaign staff, particularly communications official Ammar Moussa, contends it’s a “lie” that she supports E.V. mandates. However, then-senator Harris was a…