Maybe Congress needs a basic "Civics 101" class. How can a Member of Congress not know that 12 people set rates in the United States. It's called the FOMC. How do they not know this basic fact???????

The impact of unpredictable tariffs was highly predictable - slower growth and higher inflation. Often called stagflation - a dreaded economic condition.

Two things will happen if the Fed Funds rate gets cut before the inflation data is stable: First, the 10 year treasury will rise making mortgages more expensive Second, seniors who live off of savings will earn less money as savings account and CD rates are tied to Fed Funds

We are watching a political crash in slow motion There are Ds who believe the biggest enemy to democracy is the "abundance" agenda and its supporters They will divide the party & reduce its strength over their suspicion of any solutions that could be perceived as "moderate"

Did people vote for the Federal Government forcing private businesses to rename their business? Can you imagine what Ronald Regan would think of this kind of shocking level of government intrusion into the private economy!

The jobs report is mostly used by the media. Businesses don't make decisions based on them nor do most investors. Over 100,000 business submit on a voluntary basis. Any efforts to put burdens on companies to do it more timely will just result in fewer businesses submitting

Be more probing. What are the chances it broke all at once? If prior revisions were not that large maybe the system works and this is, in fact, telling a concerning jobs story.

Isn't Jay Leno something like 100x better known that John Oliver? Just saying.

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Classic example of Dems not bothering to learn about candidates. Conor Lamb had a moderate profile in the House as he flipped and wanted to keep a Trump District. But many Dems held that against him and never bothered to learn about the good Dem and decent person he is.

Antisemitism was allowed to fester at our great universities for too long - and it should be aggressively addressed and corrected - but I do not think Americans voted for the destruction of our great universities, which as a group have no rivals anywhere else in the world.

The two great legacies of the Pappas family will be a great Member of Congress and a soon to be great U.S. Senator AND the world's best chicken tenders!

If energy bills are increasing it's not because of the use of renewable energy - it is because we don't use enough renewable energy! Energy demand is growing fast because of AI and reindustrialization of the U.S. We should be putting as much energy online as possible,

We have many policy failures in our nation - under investment in PreK, terrible permitting issues, a gutted climate policy, lack of federal deficit management, a lack of universal healthcare etc.....companies buying back their own stock is not top of the list.

What a stupid statement. Estate tax is not "immoral." It's a tax, like any other tax. It's the result of government action, not human behavior acting against accepted norms of human decency. It's just a tax. A collection of money on an activity. There is nothing moral or immoral

But isn't the real reason Newsom can get his redistricting plan done is because Texas is taking the highly unusual and extremely partisan step of changing their maps off cycle????

I support Israel because they are our greatest ally in the region, they are a democracy with a shared set of values, we have deep economic and national security ties, and there existence has been threatened by people who think they should not exist.....not because God told me to