‘Does This Big, Beautiful Bill Make My Debt Look Big?’

There Is MUCH More to Do Don’t ask anyone MAGA that question. They very quickly get VERY angry. But, of course, it does make the national debt look even bigger. Mostly because it will be. As US Trump voters not under a spell in fact know. Well, the BBB is law (BBL?). Now comes the …

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Behind the US-China Tariff Negotiations; Fixing non-tariff trade barriers is a key goal

Much of the media focus on the Trump administration’s reciprocal tariff policy has been on the progress of tariff negotiations with each US trade partner. With respect to communist China, media headlines in recent weeks have concentrated on the tit-for-tat of tariffs proposed by the US and “countered” by China

The Marked: How the Social Security System Rewrote American Identity

Part 1 We Gave Up Our Names for Numbers: The Quiet Birth of the System That Owns You Looking back from the age of digital surveillance and algorithmic oversight, perhaps the greatest act of control wasn’t when the government began reading our emails—but when it gave each of us a number and took away our …

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