It’s only at “no cost to the taxpayer” if you exclude all the ways he’s selling out taxpayers in exchange for his ballroom “donations”

There’s good historical reason to worry that an authoritarian government leader collecting a registry of Jews, under the pretext of protecting Jews, while that leader has referred to Jews as “disloyal,” may not end up so well for The Jews. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

Truly an impressive feat, given how much Americans hated the Biden economy

ICE Reports 14th Death of 2026 at Adelanto Facility in California open.substack.com/pub/austinko...

Gas hits $4/gallon on average nationwide www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

(Reuters) -- Italy has denied permission for U.S. military aircraft to land at the Sigonella ​air base in Sicily before flying to ‌the Middle East, a source close to the matter said @reuters.com

Trump administration has defied a federal judge’s order by sharing private information, including street addresses, of millions of low-income Americans with immigration officers who are conducting mass deportations, California and other states say in a court filing

In case you’re wondering who is getting rich from GOP decision to purge millions from Medicaid: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

".. shipping analysts on Monday called into question the US president’s claims, pointing out that the number of vessels seemed implausibly high .. ".. There are only 13 large ocean-going Pakistan-flagged vessels in the world .." @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/a963...

It’s like they’re trying to lose the midterms www.axios.com/2026/03/30/g...

if you thought China was going to be the big economic loser from our Iran War -- since CHina purchases so much Iranian oil -- think again. Goldman Sachs thinks China will take half the hit to GDP growth we will, thanks in part to the country's massive investments in renewables + big oil reserves

Nouriel Roubini: Trump is likely to escalate the Iran war — risking ’1970s stagflation’ www.cnbc.com/2026/03/27/n...

The AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Five Guys CEO says he gave a $1.5m bonus to his workers so he wouldn’t get shot in the back www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump’s war in Iran is costing the U.S. economy 10,000 jobs a month, Goldman Sachs says fortune.com/2026/03/26/t...

"Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States."

Investors are still betting that overall US inflation over the next year will exceed 5%. Chart shows implied inflation rate from 1 year breakeven (via Bloomberg)

Viktor Orbán created a new state foundation that forced independent media owners to transfer ownership, changed the state media into a propaganda mouthpiece, and hounded the remaining few free media with tax audits, raids, and surveillance. Over 80% of the media in Hungary is now in his hands.

just in time for Passover www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

What a midterm message: "You make enough money, it doesn't matter to you right?"

www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.

This is so nauseatingly Un-American

LIVE momentarily, @jvl.bsky.social and @crampell.bsky.social on Trump’s economic messaging, falling consumer confidence, and rising recession fears driven by oil prices: lnk.thebulwark.com/40XJ6qU

Central bankers are not looking for political battles; in fact, they deliberately duck them, cognizant of the fact that the central bank needs to be politically independent in order to function. But politics has come for Jerome Powell:

It's Friday, which means a new @crampell.bsky.social podcast. I really enjoy these @thebulwark.com www.youtube.com/live/t7ZqHzK...

young men going to love this

“[Trump] is getting a little bored with Iran,” the official said. “Not that he regrets it or something — he’s just bored and wants to move on.” www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

Jerome Powell never wanted to be a symbol of resistance. But after standing up to Trump’s pressure campaign, he’s become exactly that; and his likely successor may be inheriting an impossible job. @crampell.bsky.social explains.

Miami is the new San Francisco, with the highest out-migration rate of all large metros. jedkolko.substack.com/p/with-less-...

Measure kinda undermines itself If it's a good proxy, people will trade on it; its components (S&P, bonds) won't gyrate as much b/c investors anticipate taco & don't freak out. But then feedback loop that causes Trump to taco gets short-circuited, & he DOESN'T taco b/c no market freakout forced it

Set aside the fantastical nuclear vests, the idea that we should be worried about Iranian terrorist reprisals seems like an argument against bombing the shit out of their country.

The Pentagon, for the first time in decades, has no plans to release a much-anticipated review of its troop placement abroad — a move that snubs lawmakers and U.S. allies, who use the analysis to determine budgets and discern American military policy. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Postal Service to Impose Its First-Ever Fuel Surcharge on Packages www.wsj.com/us-news/post...

For every five dollars the government receives in tax revenue, one dollar is spent on servicing the national debt www.apolloacademy.com/debt-service...

Trump administration officials are examining what a potential spike in oil prices as high as $200 a barrel would mean for the economy, a sign senior officials are studying the possible fallout from extreme scenarios for the Iran war. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

As a reminder: Flynn pleaded guilty in the first Trump term; was pardoned by Trump; he sued for politically motivated prosecution; and now Trump II admin settled and agreed to pay him an undisclosed sum of taxpayer $$$

Vance will visit Hungary in April, days ahead of the country’s election, to show support for the reelection of Prime Minister Orbán. Overt politicking on behalf of any foreign leader runs counter to long tradition of US administrations generally staying out of other countries’ domestic politics

Stephen Miller raised the idea of ending public education funding for undocumented children in a closed-door meeting with Texas lawmakers in Washington last week, a move that would challenge a decades-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

from @jvl.bsky.social: Ending the war will take longer than it otherwise should. The longer the war goes on, the more economic damage America will absorb. And thus the bigger the bribe Trump eventually has to offer the Iranians. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-long-w...

He did it for the children

Recession odds climb on Wall Street as economy shows cracks beneath the surface www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/r...

It's always the ones you don't suspect

It's always the ones you don't suspect

It’s not just vaccines: Parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/h...

CNN: Iranian representatives have let the Trump administration know it does not want to re-enter negotiations with special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and would prefer to engage with Vice President JD Vance www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

Damn, this series of really brutal polls on the economy