This is why you do hostile media—shows strength and confidence and if you knock out of the park, as Tim Scott did, everyone talks about it

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American workers are striking at a pace not seen in nearly a quarter-century. Last month, large stoppages from strikes resulted in 4.1 million missed days of work, the biggest monthly total since August 2000: Labor Department data wsj.com/business/the-u…

Federal spending increased from $5.1 trillion in 2019 to $7.3 trillion in 2020 and $7.4 trillion in 2021. It fell to $6.4 trillion in 2022 and remains $1.3 trillion higher than pre-pandemic levels.

You can have a michelin star OR 100 locations, but not both.

When franchisees say they aren’t making enough money we always look at their PnL. High Labor is the #1 issue we see.

Headline: "America may soon be spending more on debt service than defense." economist.com/graphic-detail…

U.S. forces in the Middle East have been attacked 16 times in the past 10 days without a response.

Youth unemployment rate: 🇿🇦 South Africa: 60.7% 🇵🇸 Palestine: 36.9% 🇪🇸 Spain: 27.8% 🇷🇸 Serbia: 24.7% 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka: 23.8% 🇸🇪 Sweden: 23.4% 🇦🇱 Albania: 22.3% 🇷🇴 Romania: 22.3% 🇮🇹 Italy: 21.87% 🇮🇷 Iran: 21.6% 🇨🇳 China: 21.3% 🇪🇪 Estonia: 20.8% 🇱🇺 Luxembourg: 20.6% 🇭🇷 Croatia: 20.2%

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So good Morgan Housel. Most truth lies in tension.

About half of Iowa Republicans look set to support someone other than Trump. Which means a far higher percentage of the ordinary Republican voters of Iowa are standing up to Trump than of Republican elected officials or conservative elites.

Guy is a 22 year old Israeli Citizen that was kidnapped 230 days ago from the NOVA Music festival on 10/7 Guy worked as a team manager at SodaStream, which is owned by PepsiCo. Pepsi has a long history of speaking on all sortve social issues. Pepsi one of your employees was

Provision Fairhope flies banner plane 'David/Goliath' in response to Starbucks opening By Erica Thomas 1819news.com/news/item/prov…

The accrued interest on the national debt now exceeds $1 trillion a year—more than we spend on national defense And yet Congress continues to add to the debt at an astounding rate of $2 trillion per year—with our national debt growing faster than our economy Unless we turn

Slim Beautiful Bill for the win 🥇

Milei reduced government spending 30% and achieved a surplus in only 1 month. His popularity didn't fall, it rose. Don't tell me fiscal discipline isn't popular with general public. It's just unpopular to the powerful special interests that control DC.

Throughout the Vote-a-rama, I was working all night to stop Congress from adding to our debt. I met with Vice President JD Vance and I reiterated my offer to vote for the bill—if it included a 90% reduction in the debt ceiling. No earmarks. No handouts. Just real fiscal reform. I wasn’t looking

The most valuable personal finance asset is not needing to impress anyone.