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Collusion is not a crime

I apologize for giving you the impression that I am only now contemplating inflation. I have been aware of "fractional reserve banking"...

I am thoroughly confused by "inflation" as a term used to describe the economy. When we complain about the price of eggs or gas being...

to my second grade brain, the rhetoric about "Inflation" was really about the price of consumer items. Those prices rose because of a...

It’s absolutely fair. Project 2025 was explicit and clear about the use of reciprocal tariffs. It was published and available for all to...

So my first grade brain is now fixating on the supply side of inflation. if there is not enough of the "things" that the population in...

So, the bond market wibble-wobbles, Trump shits himself, and starts backpedaling on tariffs. So predictable, Ian

Trump says iPhones could be made in the United States. In 2017, Tim Cook said this: “There’s a confusion about China. And let me give...

This is complex, there are many articles that point to public debt as a driver of inflation and some indicating that the lower the...

Dr. Diana Pusalka on St Theresa and St Francis

My sign for today's #handsoff , #april5 protest

I’ve never looked at the theory and the maths underlying economics so I’m not so clear on the forces and processes at work, except very...