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One of the least discussed but most obvious realities of modern trade is that Donald Trump is, in his rough-hewn way, mostly right about tariffs, while the accepted wisdom mouthed by the media, think tanks, and economists for public consumption is, if not wrong, at least incomplete.

Leftist kingpin Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg now identifies as a libertarian that feels a sense of hostility to government regulation, as well as skepticism of initiatives that claim to advance so-called “social justice.”

Most Teamsters Union workers across the traditional Rust Belt have switched their support in this year’s presidential election to Donald Trump.

Newsom: “They’ve been gouging. They’ve been taking advantage of you. … They’re lying to you. … They’re the polluted heart of this climate crisis.”

A federal judge has ruled that the discovery in a lawsuit filed by video platform Rumble against leftist pro-censorship advocates Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin, co-founders of Check My Ads, will proceed, denying the defendants’ request to stop or delay the discovery phase of the lawsuit.

Former President Donald Trump delivers remarks about the economy under the Biden-Harris administration while in Mint Hill, North Carolina, on Wednesday, September 25.

Vinod Khosla, legendary Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur, has predicted that AI will replace the majority of work in most jobs, necessitating the implementation of universal basic income (UBI) to prevent economic instability and inequity.

The Penn Wharton Budget Model finds that the tax and spending plans of Kamala Harris have twice as much drag on the economy.

Members of Britain’s governing Labour Party dealt Prime Minister Keir Starmer a blow on Wednesday, rejecting his decision to cut payments that offset winter heating costs for millions of retirees.

The Goldman Sachs economists did not estimate that Trump’s policies would cause a recession or shrink the economy.

The House Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs holds a hearing into the failed economic policies of the Biden-Harris administration.

Disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has reportedly been placed in the same jail housing unit as convicted crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried.

As the contraction of the entertainment industry continues, on Tuesday Paramount jumped into its second round of layoffs with the goal of reducing its staff by 15 percent across the board.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Wednesday called for raising taxes on the world’s wealthiest people, their assets, their properties, and big business while alleviating soaring debt obligations of smaller countries.

Kamala Harris has re-energized Democratic hopes to win the White House and is gaining ground on economic issues that were Donald Trump’s biggest advantage earlier this year.

The U.S. Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa, alleging that the financial services behemoth uses its size and dominance to stifle competition in the debit card market.

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday highlighted the inflation plaguing Americans under Vice President Kamala Harris’s (D) leadership.

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it wants to ban Chinese and Russian software and hardware from Internet-connected and autonomous vehicles, citing the security risks to American drivers and U.S. national security.

Former President Donald Trump discusses taxes and manufacturing jobs in Savannah, Georgia, on Tuesday, September 24.

Chinese economist Zhu Hengpeng, deputy director of the Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has disappeared after criticizing dictator Xi Jinping’s economic policies in a private online chat group.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta and a notorious supporter of leftist cases, has become one of only three people in the world to amass a net worth of $200 billion or more.

In an ongoing antitrust trial, Google is pushing back against the U.S. Justice Department’s accusations that it operates its ad business as a monopoly. In the face of emails and other internal documents laying out Google’s plan to crush rivals by increasing its stranglehold on the advertising market, one executive testified Monday that “We keep looking for ways to make products better.”

Encrypted messaging company Telegram announced it will now share user data with law enforcement to combat illegal activities on the platform. This massive U-turn in privacy policy comes after the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France last month.

Former President Donald Trump will unveil his plan to attract foreign companies to move their manufacturing to the United States during his speech in Savannah, Georgia, on Tuesday. 

Consumers are much less happy with current conditions and more pessimistic about what’s coming.

Former President Donald Trump visited a grocery store in Pennsylvania on Monday where he gave $100 to a struggling mother of three.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill into law on Sunday that bans the use of plastic bags at grocery stores — after the state’s ten-year-old ban on single-use plastic bags was shown to have made plastic pollution even worse.

Fed officials now think it will take a higher rate to sustainably achieve two percent inflation.

Donald Trump said Monday that if John Deere moves manufacturing to Mexico, he will impose a 200-percent tariff on its imports to the U.S.

Former President Donald Trump said Monday at an event in Smithton, Pennsylvania, that energy jobs in the state will plummet if he is not elected president.

The iconic brand Motel 6, which was founded in California, is being sold to an overseas hotel operator in a huge cash deal.

The backlash against the worst inflation in 40 years is still reverberating through the economy.

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan, considered the nation’s leading anti-monopolist, is defending herself against Vice President Kamala Harris’s billionaire donors who have demanded her firing.

Vice President Kamala Harris will continue and amplify the disastrous Biden-Harris policies rejected by the American people, Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) told host Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday.

The rise of Kamala Harris in national political polls has come at a cost of deteriorating optimism among U.S. businesses.

The doors to the last full-size Kmart store in the United States will close forever on October 20, leaving only a smaller location in Miami.