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PROPERTY & RIGHTS

What your house has been doing while you slept

Jun 23, 2026

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What your house has been doing while you slept

The Fed put the new figure out on the 11th.

MONEY & MARKETS

$3,820 — the real cost of keeping $100,000 in your savings account last year

Jun 22, 2026

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$3,820 — the real cost of keeping $100,000 in your savings account last year

CPI just hit its highest reading since April 2023. That's the number your interest rate has to beat — and isn't.

THE ECONOMY & MAIN STREET

109 days: the Strait of Hormuz closed, and 20 million barrels a day went to zero

Jun 19, 2026

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109 days: the Strait of Hormuz closed, and 20 million barrels a day went to zero

$4 gas, $126 oil, and 109 straight days of zero flow through the world's busiest oil chokepoint.

Money & Markets

Jun 22, 2026

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$3,820 — the real cost of keeping $100,000 in your savings account last year

CPI just hit its highest reading since April 2023. That's the number your interest rate has to beat — and isn't.

Jun 16, 2026

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What your grocer paid last month

It hasn't hit your receipt yet. It will.

Jun 11, 2026

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The dollar just lost ground again

The Fed's target is half of this.

Jun 4, 2026

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Gold just did what gold always does

Iran. Inflation. A Fed that might hike. Guess.

What Q1 corporate profits actually showed

May 29, 2026

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What Q1 corporate profits actually showed

The quarter before told a very different story.

Wall Street just flipped the script on rates

May 25, 2026

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Wall Street just flipped the script on rates

Three months ago they were pricing cuts. Not anymore.

Cost of Living

Your neighborhood's next build just stopped

Jun 17, 2026

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Your neighborhood's next build just stopped

Builders pulled back the hardest since the lockdown.

Jun 5, 2026

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The most expensive room in healthcare

Same procedure. Triple the bill. Depending on the door.

May 23, 2026

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Same house. Six years later.

The walls didn't move. The math did.

May 15, 2026

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The seat didn't change. The price did

Tuesday's CPI buried this on page four.

Government & Power

The number that got buried while everyone watched the Fed yesterday

Jun 18, 2026

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The number that got buried while everyone watched the Fed yesterday

At $88 billion a month, the debt bill passed the defense budget — and the Fed may not be done raising rates.

Jun 9, 2026

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What 100 days of war cost your family

Moody's did the arithmetic. It's bigger than you think.

Jun 2, 2026

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The biggest workforce cut in 70 years

And it’s not at a Fortune 500.

May 19, 2026

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The U.S. can't outrun this payment

It's bigger than what Washington spends on defense.

May 12, 2026

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It doubled in three years

Quietly. While everyone watched something else.

The Economy & Main Street

Jun 19, 2026

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109 days: the Strait of Hormuz closed, and 20 million barrels a day went to zero

$4 gas, $126 oil, and 109 straight days of zero flow through the world's busiest oil chokepoint.

Where the hiring recession actually went

Jun 8, 2026

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Where the hiring recession actually went

It didn't end. It moved.

Americans haven’t saved this little in 70 years

May 28, 2026

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Americans haven’t saved this little in 70 years

The savings rate hasn’t looked like this since the 2008 run-up.

May 22, 2026

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A tax not seen since Truman

Treasury just confirmed it. The math is brutal.

May 8, 2026

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The reason for the layoffs just changed

Four months of data. One word keeps showing up.

People & Society

Jun 15, 2026

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Three richest men, or just one

Page, Brin, Bezos combined — still short.

Jun 1, 2026

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The 14th largest city beat them all

And nobody’s talking about it.

May 21, 2026

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27 hours vs. 30 days

The border just hit a 34-year line.

The gap between fear and fact just opened up

May 7, 2026

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The gap between fear and fact just opened up

It got safer. You felt the opposite.

Property & Rights

Jun 23, 2026

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What your house has been doing while you slept

The Fed put the new figure out on the 11th.

The last time this happened, gas was 31 cents

Jun 12, 2026

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The last time this happened, gas was 31 cents

American farmers haven't grown this little wheat since 1962.

Smaller herd than 1951. Bigger appetite than ever.

May 26, 2026

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Smaller herd than 1951. Bigger appetite than ever.

Your Memorial Day cookout already told you.

May 11, 2026

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A line drawn in 1934. Erased in January

Ninety-two years of friction. Erased in one bill.