Inflation was at 2.3% before Trump's Liberation Day own goal. Then 2.7. Then 3.0. Now 3.3, a full point in a year, during one of the most depressed periods for American incomes in decades.
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Undocumented immigrants contribute $97 billion yearly in federal, state, and local taxes. They paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022.
Bessent is galactically stupid.
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Tariff inflation was hiding behind falling oil prices. Trump caused both. Then he attacked the one country that could choke off the world's oil supply. The cover is blown and there's no getting it back.
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Blanket tariffs on the world mean blanket inflation. No workarounds. No escape routes. The St. Louis Fed just confirmed what math already told us: it was always going to come back as inflation.
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War in Iran. Tariffs compounding into an energy shock. The relentless journalism of @democracynow.org's Amy Goodman. @humanistreport.bsky.social's Mike Figueredo speaking sense. Plus Chart of the Week and headlines. It's #UNFTR On The Record for 4/17/26.
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This week's On the Record covers the confluence of tariff inflation and oil shocks and important messages in the new @democracynow.org documentary. Flowers for the @humanistreport.bsky.social, headlines from @jacobinmag.bsky.social, @truthdig.com & @theprogressivemag.bsky.social.
The Fed can keep the financial plumbing working, but it can't fix a supply-side crisis. For the top 1%? Inflation's an inconvenience. For everyone else, it destroys savings, kills small businesses, and triggers the doom loop.
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Dug into the ugly new inflation prints and paired it with San Fran Fed report on tariff inflation for the latest @meidastouch.com piece. Rocky road ahead of us. Again... entirely self-inflicted. Just wild.
Our parents lived under the real threat of nuclear war. We grew up with it in movies. Now it's back, because of one man. Every elected official needs to act. This is a humanity thing. This was the line.
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Latest for @meidastouch.com. I dissect the damage done to the global economy by Trump’s illegal war on Iran. The best we can hope for is to mitigate some of the fallout, but the simple math of supply and demand all but guarantees a worldwide economic catastrophe. One that was wholly unavoidable.
Past administrations had experienced advisors to clean up foreign policy disasters. Trump and Hegseth gutted that safeguard entirely. Now we're led by the Dunning-Kruger effect personified: infinite confidence, zero curiosity, no exit strategy.
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Tucker Carlson's risen as a leading anti-war voice by challenging U.S. support for Israel's wars and opposing the Iran conflict, filling a vacuum Democrats created. The left needed someone to challenge power. He seized it.
The latest from @rashedmian.bsky.social for #UNFTR.
Smarter leaders than Trump and Hegseth have bungled wars before. What's different now? Incompetence saturates every corner of this administration, and the economic tools we'd normally use to cushion the blow are gone.
🎧 Listen to the latest episode of #UNFTR: Trump and Hegseth (Dunning & Kruger).
As predicted. A 2 week TACO. Huge temporary gains ahead in the stock market and further steep economic declines while we wait for the next circus act.
Unfiltered thoughts on the doomsday timeline that is Donald Trump's administration.
As Trump's authoritarian grip tightens and Americans take to the streets, I turned to history for answers. This ep: Simón Bolívar's fight against monarchy and what his no kings-style revolution teaches us about resisting despotism today.
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1 possibility tonight: His TACOness Tacos out but succeeds in making himself "must see TV." We all tune in to hear him lie that he won some fake concession so he can declare victory & the lemmings on Wall Street can celebrate tomorrow. Putting this into the universe because the alternative is ...
Getting us into a quagmire... not special.
Getting us into one that will produce a worldwide depression and bring an end to MAGA... now THAT'S special.
Trump embodies every corrupt, inept impulse we've ever vomited into the Oval Office. History won't remember him as great; at best he's a footnote, at worst the man who broke the republic. But only if we let him. He is, to be sure, no king.
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Career advice for all the would-be captains of industry and billionaires. If your chosen vocation has put you on a path toward a Ronan Farrow profile, you're probably a terrible person and doing everything wrong.
Just returned from vacation. Belated thoughts on No Kings, Bolivar, "Russputin" Vought and overcoming Trumpism.
Iran holds the cards, there's no exit strategy, and this war is wired directly into global energy, food, and financial systems. We didn't just launch a war—we pulled the fire alarm on the world economy. No historical precedent for this level of stupidity.
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Iran isn't letting go. Why would they? We murdered their Supreme Leader and hundreds of children. And now they'll only speak to Vance. A thought: Iran is doing to Trump what they did to Carter by negotiating with Reagan. Diplomatic regime change in the U.S. by a regime with time on its side.
Thank goodness we're getting rid of these incompetent women in the administration. More room for the incompetent men to really shine.
The 1970s stagflation was a genuine supply shock: oil embargoes hit when U.S. production had peaked and the economy was running tight. It broke Keynesian models and birthed Reaganomics. Today's crisis is a price shock, not supply—different beast.
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Fred Trump, DJT's father, was sued in 1973 for refusing to rent to Black tenants. The family fortune was built from the discriminatory system that locked Black families out of homeownership. Now Trump may sign the first major housing bill in a generation.
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Congress passed historic bipartisan housing legislation, and it still won't fix the crisis. We dive into what the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act does, what it leaves out + why the real forces driving unaffordability remain untouched.
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Every Dem policy is just course correction sold as "not Trump." Healthcare subsidies, normalize alliances, billionaire "fair share." Republicans destroy democracy's infrastructure, Democrats patch it. They're the GOP's pit crew; competent, but zero vision.
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The February PPI data (already the worst in a year) was compiled before the Iran war, before Hormuz closed, before oil hit $100+. March's numbers will reflect a 40% energy shock baked into a system that's already overheating. We are in serious trouble.
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From Proudhon to Trump. A big swing at the housing crisis in the United States and whether the new bipartisan bill will help alleviate it. It's one of the most complex issues we face. On the upside, we passed a bill! (Yay) The downside is 250 years of mistakes.
