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The closing economic pitch Republicans are too scared to make
In the final stretch before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump has asked Republicans to vote as though he’s on the ballot. But weirdly enough, neither he nor the rest of the GOP has made much of a case for his record at all. And in a third consecutive election where voters insist that their No. 1 concern is the cost of living, the absence of an affirmative defense of Trump’s economic performance is a conspicuous omission.
What if the vibes are all wrong?
Americans feel angry and poor. The French feel ripped off by a stingy government and are stark raving mad. Across the European continent, electorates in countries heading shortly to the polls feel that the center has collapsed, while here at home, Republicans feel the approach of the bluest of waves, not just in swing states but potentially in historically safe GOP strongholds like South Carolina and Kansas. But what if the vibes are all wrong?
Trump’s NIH women’s health office could save lives: Tiana Lowe Doescher
Washington Examiner economics columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher said President Donald Trump’s order creating a women’s health office at the National Institutes of Health could save lives. “This is sort of a clinical answer, but like this is important for the bottom line of an economy,” Doescher said. “American medical science is really, really, really good at finding the stuff that imminently kills people and learning how to make it less fatal.” Real journalism.Trusted by millions.
Kelly Clarkson reminds us that the customer is usually right
Kelly Clarkson, the original American Idol turned America’s talk show sweetheart, is known for being uniquely uncontroversial among her generation of tabloid-trailed pop stars. Hence, it’s absurd and hysterical that Clarkson began the biggest social media controversy of the week with a post on X complaining that she was “treated like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman” when she went to a Brooklyn boutique specifically to purchase an artisanal — checks notes — animatronic bird.
Why France's financial crisis foreshadows what will come in the US without King Dollar and reform
Because it's a day ending in "y," the French are rioting again Nominally, the latest crusade to corral union workers, pensioners, students, and Greta Thunberg on the streets is something about education . Really, it's a not-so-veiled threat to the government that it better not dare to reform France's truly disastrous fiscal order.
Why France’s financial crisis foreshadows what will come in the US without King Dollar and reform
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Is the US bond market more scared of the government's deficit than inflation itself?
As in 2024, with polls open for the midterm elections, the cost of living remains voters' top priority. As for investors, their primary concern in the aftermath of the Federal Reserve's first rate hike since 2023 isn't inflation in particular. Rather, it's the federal government's deficit. It's the classic good-news-bad-news dichotomy of the economy approaching the halfway point of President Donald Trump's second term.
Is the US bond market more scared of the government’s deficit than inflation itself?
As in 2024, with polls open for the midterm elections, the cost of living remains voters’ top priority. As for investors, their primary concern in the aftermath of the Federal Reserve’s first rate hike since 2023 isn’t inflation in particular. Rather, it’s the federal government’s deficit. Print subscriber? Click here to login/register your account Digital subscriber? Click here to login/register your account. Trusted reporting.Unlimited access.
Federal deficit surged 12% last year. Even though tax collections grew, spending exploded faster
After falling by 4% in the first full fiscal year of Donald Trump's second term, the federal budget deficit surged 12% to an eyewatering $1.99 trillion in FY 2026. As Art Laffer, the creator of the eponymous Laffer Curve , insisted, the sweeping tax cuts of 2025's One Big Beautiful Bill did not decrease federal revenue. In fact, total federal receipts rose by 3%, with individual income tax and payroll tax collections up 6%. The problem was, as it always has been, Uncle Sam's spending.
Federal deficit surged 12% last year. Even though tax collections grew, spending exploded faster
After falling by 4% in the first full fiscal year of Donald Trump’s second term, the federal budget deficit surged 12% to an eyewatering $1.99 trillion in FY 2026. As Art Laffer, the creator of the eponymous Laffer Curve, insisted, the sweeping tax cuts of 2025’s One Big Beautiful Bill did not decrease federal revenue. In fact, total federal receipts rose by 3%, with individual income tax and payroll tax collections up 6%. The problem was, as it always has been, Uncle Sam’s spending.
Why Dario Amodei needs AI regulation for Anthropic to stay on top
Outside the White House and in front of the press, President Donald Trump’s convocation of artificial intelligence industry leaders seemed to have finally unified the frontier. The smiling CEOs all signed on to the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, establishing four layers of AI oversight and control. But the guardrails, Trump explained, are “self-policing” and voluntary.
All of your takes about this Cornell rape allegation are terrible
I do not literally mean that every hot take I’ve seen about the recently revived 2024 Cornell rape allegation is terrible. Zachary Faria is correct that Democrats are accepting the accuser’s newly filed lawsuit far too credulously, without vetting Jane Doe’s claims, which would be galling if true.
Eric Schmitt’s shadow campaign for the vice presidency lasted six hours
Sen. Eric Schmitt’s (R-MO) unsubtle bid for the 2028 vice presidency lasted less than six hours. It lived at the hands of a press even more idiotic than our politicians, and it died by suicide through hubris. Around 6 a.m., Axios published a puff piece declaring that the senator, who has just three years in the chamber under his belt, is “drawing buzz” as a possible running mate to Vice President JD Vance, the man broadly considered President Donald Trump’s most likely successor.
Sally Hemings and her children were ‘Heritage Americans’
James Callender first alleged that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave, Sally Hemings, more than 200 years ago. A century and a half ago, one of those children, Madison Hemings, stated publicly that Jefferson was his father. But only in the past week has the genetic evidence proved irrefutable, indicating that it was the Founding Father himself and not any of his other male relatives who sired the Hemings children.
Failing public schools need higher standards, not more money
Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the “1619 Project,” recently scored rare bipartisan plaudits. It was a marked departure from the criticism the 2019 New York Times editorial package received from eminent historians and others, over its assertion that a primary motivation for the American Revolution was the protection of slavery from British emancipation threats. Now, Hannah-Jones is earning praise for a Sept. 20 New York Times mea culpa about her daughter’s educational path.
Doomers worry AI is too powerful. Trump understands the real risk is if it’s not powerful enough.
Two seemingly unrelated stories have recently taken Washington by storm. First, Democrats marched in lockstep behind the leaders of the nation’s frontier AI labs, who called for Washington to regulate the industry and slow down development. This campaign was kick-started when Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old Anthropic researcher of four months, resigned from the company and publicly announced that artificial intelligence may kill us all. Already a print subscriber?
Jealous feminists miss the real Sydney Sweeney scandal
Stop me if you’ve heard this story before, but the woke feminists are mad at Sydney Sweeney again. To borrow their own vernacular, they are body-shaming the statuesque actress over her latest ad campaign. “I can’t describe how infuriated I feel when I watch this,” said Australian Olympic swimmer Ariarne Titmus of the scantily-clad Sweeney. “How do we live in a world where monetizing a woman’s body and sexualising women’s sport is still a thing?” Already a print subscriber?
Most mothers work. But 50 hours in the cubicle with the child in daycare is not the norm
At the end of a rocky summer for the economy, President Donald Trump’s administration scored a win with the August jobs report. It found that the labor market added 162,000 jobs, or triple expectations. Boasting that 98% of those jobs last month went to women, predictably due to the beginning of the school year, the president quipped that it’s “no wonder” that women like him. Already a print subscriber? Click here to login/register your account Trusted reporting.Unlimited access.
Voters may accept Trump’s bribes, but the bond markets aren’t biting
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Voters may accept Trump's bribes, but the bond markets aren't biting
While the Treasury Department pulls out all the stops to try to calm the bond market, the White House has apparently taken the opposite approach. During his headline speech at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas , President Donald Trump pledged to issue “a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000” — but only if the party retains the House and Senate majorities in November.
Voters may accept Trump’s bribes, but the bond markets aren’t biting
While the Treasury Department pulls out all the stops to try to calm the bond market, the White House has apparently taken the opposite approach. During his headline speech at the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas, President Donald Trump pledged to issue “a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000” — but only if the party retains the House and Senate majorities in November. Stay informed.Stay ahead.
Affordability or bankrolling stay-at-home parents? You can only care about one
The White House’s reported plot to redirect funding from the Child Care and Development Block Grant subsidies for working parents to families with one stay-at-home parent is best understood as an 11th-hour political ploy to bolster Republicans’ odds in the midterm elections, but a gambit that is unlikely to stand up in court.
Trump is winning his war for oil while the whole world roots against him
President Donald Trump’s supposed weekslong war on Iran has now trudged into months, but while it’s hard to say whether he’s winning his war over the country’s suicidal dictatorship, it’s becoming increasingly clear that, against all odds and a concerted, anti-American psy-op, the White House is winning its war for oil independence.
Trump trusts Treasury to end the war that diplomacy will not
The Pentagon may have ceased its offensive in Iran for now, but the latest front in President Donald Trump’s war on the dictatorship is global. In what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has branded “economic D-Day” for Iran, the Treasury Department is launching a sweeping sanctions regime targeting not the long-ostracized regime, but rather the third parties who continue to trade with Tehran. The strategy sounds so obvious that observers may wonder why it hasn’t been done before.
Scott Bessent cannot save the bond market from Congress's $40 trillion national debt
One month after the bond market went ballistic, with the 10-year Treasury yield breaching 4.7% and the 30-year Treasury yield skyrocketing to 5.17%, the market is now well and truly imploding. The benchmark 10-year hasn't come down, and the 30-year has catapulted toward 5.3%, hitting its highest level since before the Great Recession.
Bond market meltdown shows MAGA needs a deficit-reducing response before Election Day
International markets are rattled by global events. That was made clear by the Aug. 18 widespread global selloff of U.S. Treasury securities, raising 30-year yields to roughly 5.34%, the highest level since 2007. There are several causes for the rising investor anxiety. This includes renewed conflict in the Middle East, along with a continued guessing game about the Federal Reserve’s intentions regarding interest rates.
Bond market meltdown shows MAGA needs a deficit-reducing response before election day
International markets are rattled by global events. That was made clear by the Aug. 18 widespread global selloff of U.S. Treasury securities, raising 30-year yields to roughly 5.34%, the highest level since 2007. There are several causes for the rising investor anxiety. This includes renewed conflict in the Middle East, along with a continued guessing game about the Federal Reserve’s intentions regarding interest rates.
Tiana's take: Bond market meltdown shows MAGA needs a deficit-reducing response before election day
International markets are rattled by global events. That was made clear by the Aug. 18 widespread global selloff of U.S. Treasury securities, raising 30-year yields to roughly 5.34%, the highest level since 2007. There are several causes for the rising investor anxiety.
Mamdani’s war on affordability
With the clock ticking toward the Nov. 3 midterm elections, Republicans face deep voter concerns about President Donald Trump‘s seeming indifference to affordability issues. The perception exists even though sustained price hikes occurred between his nonconsecutive terms — a key reason voters returned him to the White House. The good news is that there is zero evidence Democrats are taking the inflation issue any more seriously.
AOC can have a ‘full’ life with a career and a baby
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. She’s engaged to the same man who’s stood by her side for over a decade, and, with Forbes estimating her net worth as of a year ago at $125,000, she’s wealthier than at least two-thirds of her peers.
You're not mad about the burrito prices. You're mad about service prices
In a bit of X discourse so dumb that it culminated in the vice president fat-shaming a newspaper columnist, the right-wing commentariat has spent the last 48 hours arguing over whether burritos are too expensive.
Max Miller’s career is over. It’s just a question of now or November
The acrimonious nature of divorce proceedings often renders the records an unreliable game of he-said-she-said, with grand accusations lobbed at one another but frequently with little evidence to back them up. The divorce proceedings of Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) and Republican strategist Emily Moreno are not one of those cases. Trumponomics: Big government is a racket Stop falling for the anti-Markwayne Mullin psyop What if Republicans lose both House and Senate?
Stop falling for the anti-Markwayne Mullin psyop
President Donald Trump deported a staggering 46,000 illegal aliens in July, a record unparalleled by any other president. That same month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 51,000 immigrants, an astonishing average of 1,645 a day. Indeed, more immigrants were issued deportation orders by a judge in the past 18 months than in the four years of Joe Biden’s presidency combined.
The generational divide over affordability in the Trump economy is all about housing
On the one hand, President Donald Trump has presided over a 1.3% increase in real average weekly earnings since the start of his second, nonconsecutive term. Median household incomes are up an average of nearly $3,000 in real terms. While inflation did indeed briefly spike in the aftermath of the Iran offensive, all signs indicate that the oil supply shock is limited as inflation abated last month. On the other hand, Trump’s approval rating is trending perilously close to 40%.
The generational divide over affordability in the Trump economy is all about housing
On the one hand, President Donald Trump has presided over a 1.3% increase in real average weekly earnings since the start of his second, nonconsecutive term. Median household incomes are up an average of nearly $3,000 in real terms. While inflation did indeed briefly spike in the aftermath of the Iran offensive, all signs indicate that the oil supply shock is limited as inflation abated last month. On the other hand, Trump’s approval rating is trending perilously close to 40%.
The DSA’s dumbed-down definition of working class is designed to deceive
Before Graham Platner was forced to bail from his Maine Senate bid over multiple allegations of domestic violence and sexual abuse, the silver spoon “democratic” socialist said something dumb enough that it should have proven as disqualifying as the Nazi tattoo. “My definition of working class these days is essentially anybody who makes money from wages,” Platner said.
Why the bond market is going ballistic (and no, it's not just Iran)
The number of Americans filing for new unemployment claims fell to its lowest level in over half a century. Core consumer price index inflation, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge, fell back to its lowest level since March, defying expectations, and the International Monetary Fund has upgraded its expectations of the country's economic growth for this year to 2.3%. And yet on Thursday, the bond market went ballistic.
How Uncle Sam saved my life
Driving me back to the hospital in early May, my mother tried to distract me with stories of dead relatives from the old country of preindustrial Yugoslavia. I was five days out from an unplanned Cesarean section, slightly high on oxycodone, and distraught that I had been discharged from the hospital the day prior, on Mother’s Day, and had to leave my baby in the NICU.
America 250: The American empire is brought to you by King Dollar
Tiana Lowe Doescher, Washington Examiner While the rest of the planet operates on debit cards and cash ledgers of IOUs, the United States wields the monetary equivalent of an Amex Black card.
The Big Four control 80% of the sky. Thank Elizabeth Warren
In 2024, the senator lauded her apprentices in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division for fighting “runaway airline consolidation” and blocking the merger that “would have led to fewer flights and higher fares.” Instead, because the Biden DOJ listened to Warren, we’re on the cusp of facing runaway airline consolidation. Thanks to the demise of Spirit, the worst is yet to come for commercial airline customers unless the government gets out of the way.
In abandoning OPEC for the free market, UAE sees Iran writing on the wall
Tiana Lowe Doescher, Washington Examiner By the time you're reading this, the United Arab Emirates , the world's fourth-largest oil exporter, will have left the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries after nearly 60 years of membership.
The WHCA dinner shooting is what happens when your conspiracy theories tell lunatics to kill
WHAT IF THE EPSTEIN FILES PROVE THAT ANTI-TRUMP ACCUSATIONS WERE ACTUALLY CONFESSIONS? “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country,” she posted on X. “His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand.
Is the Senate robbing Trump of a second shot at new tax cuts?
Markwayne Mullin, the new DHS secretary, has warned that despite the executive branch pilfering under metaphorical couch cushions to pay staff, the department’s funds will entirely dry up by May. Trump’s 2025 tax law fully funds workers in agencies at the front lines of his administration’s deportations agenda, namely Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Yet, some 20,000 civilian employees have gone unpaid in both this shutdown and a 2025 predecessor.
Rural Virginians get Fairfaxed
DEMOCRATS ARE LOSING THE WORKING CLASS ONE MOVING TRUCK AT A TIME I live in Fairfax County, so when I relay the practical implications of what “getting Fairfaxed” actually means, I say it not with schadenfreude, but with sorrow. Fairfax County Public Schools, formerly one of the best in the nation, is now a financial, academic, and practical disaster.
Trump realizes he must intensify economic pressure on Iran, not save the theocracy from itself
The Strait of Hormuz is the only waterway connecting the Persian Gulf with the wider ocean, and has become a critical chokepoint in the war with Iran. (Grace Hagerman/Washington Examiner) The damage to oil supply and supply chains was real. And even the U.S., which became a net oil exporter for the first time since 1949 during Trump’s first term, was not immune from the corresponding rise in global prices.
Democrats governed California into the ground. Now they can't field a candidate
Tiana Lowe Doescher, Washington Examiner In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here .
Democrats governed California into the ground. Now they can’t field a candidate
DEMOCRATS ARE LOSING THE WORKING CLASS ONE MOVING TRUCK AT A TIME The first answer to “what the hell happened here” is the overnight collapse of Democratic front-runner Eric Swalwell, the congressman who ended his gubernatorial bid and resigned his House seat after being accused by multiple women of rape. But that answer barely scratches the surface of the quandary that decades of Democratic dominance in California have effectively cratered the party’s internal infrastructure.
Trump budget proposal shows he understands freedom isn’t free
Fiscal hawks may balk at some of the budget’s assumptions, such as relatively low unemployment rates and the 10-year Treasury yield remaining below 4% for the next decade, which would reflect widespread confidence in the economy. Or annual GDP growth surpassing 3% through the end of this decade.
Why isn’t this film about forgiveness in marriage actually about race and guns?
Robert Pattinson and Zendaya in “The Drama.” (Courtesy of A24) Unlike her fiancé and friends, Emma is demonstrably remorseful, not just in the current moment, but as evidenced by flashbacks showing she becomes an anti-gun violence activist not unlike the Parkland students who started March for Our Lives. She didn’t actually go through with the shooting.
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