Notes in the Margin

Trump claimed he could single-handedly raise taxes (tariffs) under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The appeals court disagreed.

President Trump’s recent executive

The median sales price of new houses sold in July was $403,800, down 5.9% from a year earlier and the lowest price since November 2024.

Rate cut to "stimulate" jobs? Powell: "while the labor market appears to be in balance, it is a curious kind of balance that results from a marked slowing in both the supply of and demand for workers."

The files provide a fresh and often disturbing look at a spy described by historian Jefferson Morley as “a leading architect of America’s strategic relationship with Israel.”

Our corrupt economic system was created by people born decades before the Boomers were adults. The boomers just got lucky in a system that created vast wealth inequality. 

The very definition of socialism: government ownership of the means of production. The US federal government now owns 10% of intel. 

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Bolton is a leading cheerleader for the modern American surveillance state and for endless intervention abroad.