Who Holds the IOU Holds the Vote
Foreign governments and central banks held about $4.69 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds as of January...
Growing and Stuck: The Economy Is Doing Two Things at Once
For the past year and a half, the Federal Reserve has been trying to cool prices...
The Bill Nobody Voted For
The filed numbers show that interest on the federal debt now costs more, on an annualized...
The Debt Crosses $40 Trillion Any Day Now. The Escape Plan Is 80 Years Old.
America's debt hits $40 trillion any day now. Interest alone runs $3.8 billion a day. The...
Energy is up 14.7%. Jobs just turned negative. The same economy produced both.
Four years ago, inflation was the only story in America. The Consumer Price Index hit a...
The jobs number shrank. The unemployment rate fell. Both are true, and that’s the problem.
In one breath The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July 2026, according to the BLS...
Growth Slowed, Prices Cooled, and the Fed Didn’t Blink: What This Week’s Numbers Actually Say
In one breath The BEA's advance estimate for Q2 2026, released July 30, shows the economy...
The Headline Said “Cooling.” The Data Said “Complicated.”
In one breath Inflation printed its sharpest monthly drop in six years in June, and financial...
Hiring Slowed, Prices Cooled, and the Fed Held Steady: What June’s Numbers Mean for Earnings Season
For most of the past two years, the U.S. economy ran two contradictory stories at once:...
The freight economy is moving more than it’s making
For most of the past two years, the freight industry has been working through a hangover....
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