As voters prioritize the cost of living and the Iran war, Hakeem Jeffries promises relief that structural inflation and Donald Trump's tariffs will likely make impossible.
By Maya Ellison ·
A Fox News poll shows voters turning against Donald Trump over soaring living costs, delivering a deserved rebuke to an administration that manufactured an economic crisis.
By Maya Ellison ·
Working families are drowning in rising prices and predatory debt while politicians offer empty gimmicks, proving the entire economic system is rigged against ordinary people.
By Maya Ellison ·
President Donald Trump created a committee to investigate Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, but the move is a calculated attempt to manufacture "cause" for removal after a Supreme Court defeat.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Asian stocks rose as weak U.S. jobs data lowered Federal Reserve rate-hike bets, but this rally ignores the systemic risk of high borrowing costs and unsustainable sovereign debt.
By Klaus Berger ·
The Federal Reserve is wrong. It is prioritizing a theoretical inflation target over the actual payrolls of American workers. In September, the U.S. economy added 29,000 jobs. This number is a warning. It is not a sign of stability.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
TBPN argues that Mark Zuckerberg's vision of self-regulating AI labs is a deliberate sidestepping of existential risk.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
If you want to know what a quarter-percentage point looks like, don’t look at a spreadsheet in Washington. Look at the diesel pump in Newell.
By Ruth Behrens ·
When the price of a gallon of milk or a bag of flour jumps in the Segundo Barrio, it isn’t a "data point" for the people living there.
By Alma Cordero ·
You read the headlines about G20 finance chiefs gathering in Asheville, North Carolina, and you hear words like "global imbalances" and "sovereign debt restructuring." The…
By Ruth Behrens ·
The persistent ache in the American consumer’s wallet—the stubborn 3.7% annual rise in core PCE—is not a routine economic hiccup; it is the sound of global resource dependency screaming.
By Sophie Naimi ·
The figures are stark, and they should be enough to shock any man who understands basic arithmetic. As of August 19, 2026, the total U.S. government debt crossed $40 trillion for the first time.
By Bram de Vries ·
The number is not merely an accounting entry; it is a physical weight, one that settles over the shared institutions like damp marble dust. As of Tuesday, the U.S.
By Elena Rossi ·
I was reading about the market’s steady climb—the NASDAQ Index up 0.54%, the S&P 500 creeping along at 0.26%—and I kept thinking of my father welding winters at the co-op, hands…
By Ruth Behrens ·
Wall Street, as usual, is having a good day—a day built on spreadsheets and narrative convenience.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
The narrative emerging from Washington this week—that U.S.
By Elena Rossi ·