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The government should favor automation over migration because robots can help Americans get higher wages, says Vice President JD Vance.

The new San Francisco Fed paper on tariffs opens the door for using customs duties in a way that the economics profession has almost never considered: as a macroeconomic policy tool.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would “love to fire” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, whom he has long criticized for what he sees as a failure to cut interest rates fast enough. 

Survey results released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta show that businesses have largely accepted that tariffs do not pose a risk of higher inflation.

Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater delivered a speech Wednesday on how America First Antitrust can help farmers realize the American dream.

With a little less than a year to go before the 2026 midterm elections, a Marist Poll shows Democrats leading Republicans by a massive +14 points in the generic ballot.

President Donald Trump currently enjoys the highest foreign policy job approval rating of any 21st-century president.

Former Harvard President Larry Summers, also known for serving as Bill Clinton’s Secretary of the Treasury, has stepped down from the board of directors at AI giant OpenAI after emails revealed his long term friendship with convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump speaks at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum on Wednesday, November 19.

Judge James Boasberg has rejected the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, allowing the company to retain its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. Boasberg is facing articles of impeachment filed this month over his role in the “Artic Frost” probe of Republicans.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is introducing the Gold Reserve Transparency Act to institute the first audit of the U.S. government’s gold holdings in over half a century.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) discusses his bipartisan legislation to shore up main street’s community banks and credit unions.

A report published on Tuesday by the AidData research lab at William & Mary university in Williamsburg, Virginia, found that the United States is the largest recipient of loans from China.

President Donald Trump and his administration are narrowing their defense of the huge H-1B corporate outsourcing program, which is used by many corporate executives to hire many foreign graduates for a wide range of jobs.

Cloudflare brought major portions of the internet to its knees on Tuesday morning, causing  widespread service disruptions for Elon Musk’s X and a wide range of websites, apps, and even video games. The company now admits the failure was completely its own fault due to a programming mistake.

On Tuesday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press Now,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins stated that she thinks the prices of goods like coffee, bananas, and tomatoes will fall “within, I’d say, a few weeks, to a few months” now that

Millions of native-born Americans at their prime working age remain out of the nation’s labor market, new analysis details. 

A facility leader for GE Vernova highlighted job creation at the company as a result of Saudi Arabia’s investment in the United States during President Donald Trump’s meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday. 

The Federal Reserve spent 2025 worried about the wrong problem, mistakenly holding back on rate cuts out of fear that Trump’s tariffs are an inflation threat.

States across the country have potentially illegally issued about 194,000 Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs) to foreign truck drivers who would not meet English language standards set by the Department of Transportation (DOT), Secretary Sean Duffy reveals.

After Tesla shareholders approved a pay package that will pay Elon Musk a trillion dollars over ten years, the far-left Washington Post required two bylines to publish a 14-line piece having a brain hemorrhage over it.

President Donald Trump cracked a joke Monday about his short yet exciting stint as a fast food worker while speaking at the McDonald’s Impact Summit in Washington, DC.

A majority of Democrats have a favorable view of socialism, a weekly survey from the Economist/YouGov revealed.

Year-t0-date, factory orders are up a solid 3.3 percent compared with the January through August period a year earlier.

The CEO of AI startup Anthropic, Dario Amodei, has cautioned that artificial intelligence companies must be open and honest about the potential dangers posed by their products, or risk repeating the mistakes made by Big Tobacco and opioid companies.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has cautioned that while the current surge in AI investment represents an “extraordinary moment,” there are also some elements of “irrationality” in the AI boom.

“While underlying demand in the business remained relatively stable sequentially, an expected increase in demand in the third quarter did not materialize,” CEO Ted Decker said in the company’s earnings announcement.

A major outage affecting Cloudflare’s Global Network has led to widespread internet disruptions, impacting popular platforms like Elon Musk’s X, ChatGPT,and even Downdetector, the first place people look to understand internet outages.

Farage responded to the UK’s left-wing govt conceding action needed on illegal immigration by immediately pulling the Overton Window further.

The White House is touting a decline in the number of foreign students enrolled in U.S. colleges amid the public’s growing realization that many U.S. employers prefer to hire cheap foreign graduates instead of skilled American professionals.

America’s dependence on foreign drug ingredients is a national security and safety issue that is hiding in plain sight.

President Donald Trump said Monday that his hoarse voice is a result of yelling at people “because they were stupid” on a trade issue.

President Donald Trump speaks at the McDonald’s Impact Summit to discuss jobs and the economy on Monday, November 11.

A new paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco suggests that the economic establishment’s narrative that tariffs drive up inflation is wrong.

Renaissance Macro economist Neil Dutta says the Federal Reserve is on the verge of making a serious policy mistake as various officials drift toward keeping rates steady instead of cutting next month.

The Census Bureau reported that construction outlays reached an annualized pace of $2.17 trillion, up 0.2 percent from July’s revised $2.165 trillion figure. The result beat economist expectations for a 0.2 percent decline.