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.
🎧 Listen to the latest episode of #UNFTR: Housing in America.
February's PPI came in way hotter than expected—nearly double consensus—on top of January's spike. This pipeline inflation hits consumers in 2–3 months, and that's before the Iran war and energy costs. Stagflation is here.
🎧 Listen to the latest episode of #UNFTR: The Art of Trumpflation.
"This isn’t just another discretionary “police action” on the other side of the world or a simple regime change. This war is wired directly into the global energy, food, and financial systems. We didn’t just launch a war. We may have just pulled the fire alarm on the entire world economy." #UNFTR
#unftr Raising interest rates pushes up the cost of government borrowing, this becomes self-perpetuating, since higher interest rates are unsustainable. Higher interest rates hit – by design – businesses and households.https://ukandeu.ac.uk/whos-afraid-of-fiscal-dominance/
Markwayne Mullin's first day at DHS is off to a stellar start, Lindsey Graham's got plans for Iran, BlackRock's having a moment, and OpenAI's running low on cash. Plus: actual Iran journalism and crude oil truth-telling. #UNFTR On The Record for 3-9-26.
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The U.S. and Israel declared war on Iran despite near-agreement in negotiations. This is an illegal move by a waning empire that threatens us all. Mainstream media's already spinning propaganda to justify it.
🎧 Listen to the latest episode of #UNFTR: War in Iran and the Decline of the U.S. Empire.
Trump inherited a recovering economy and wrecked it faster than any president in modern history. Inflation was cooling, jobs were healthy, rates were dropping. He just couldn't sit still.
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Trump's tariffs raised your prices. Now the government may owe $175B in refunds—but that money goes back to corporations, not you. The deficit explodes and consumers eat the loss. Sensing a pattern?
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Rubio got a standing ovation in Munich for defending colonialism. That's the "civilization" he's protecting; one where great powers write the rules, launch illegal attacks, and kidnap sovereign leaders without consequence.
The latest from @rashedmian.bsky.social for #UNFTR.
Trump lost his tariff power and he's throwing a tantrum. His hand-picked Supreme Court shut him down. Meanwhile, cracks are showing everywhere in the economy. We break it all down on this week's Macro Take.
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White nationalist confirmation hearing. AOC's foreign policy audition. Trump's midterm steal taking shape. AI deepfakes shaking Hollywood. Gas prices. Cuba. It's all on the table today in On The Record for 2/17/26. #UNFTR
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U.S. debt exploded after 2008, but not equally. Feds bailed out business while households drowned. Credit cards at 21%, banks borrowing at 3.5%. The inequality isn't just income—it's the cost of capital itself.
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Crypto winter is here. Trump's tariffs haven't touched China. The labor market is cracking. Chuck Schumer is tone deaf. And Roy Cohn's ghost is working overtime. All this + love for Ralph Nader. #UNFTR On The Record for 2/9/26.
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Trump's mass deportations aren't new—they're built on 24+ years of post-9/11 infrastructure. From Obama's "Deporter-in-Chief" era to today's ICE raids, the national security state has made immigration enforcement routine governance.
The latest from @rashedmian.bsky.social for #UNFTR.
Jared Kushner unveiled his Gaza plan at Davos, rebranding disaster capitalism as "peace implementation." After 70K+ Palestinians killed, he's transforming Gaza into a neoliberal experiment—using genocide as a lab for future conquests.
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Inflation crept up to 2.8% in November while disposable income trends downward. Trump will say consumers are spending—but it's on healthcare, not the goods that signal economic health. Bankruptcies are up for a reason.
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This is a big deal involving many countries and it is still way under the radar. #UNFTR
Our economy runs on dollar demand, not manufacturing. Trump's tariffs devalued the dollar 10%, kidnapping Maduro made us a rogue nation, and now allies are finding alternatives. He just revived the Triffin Dilemma.
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The trade deficit is down and Trump will celebrate, but look closer: manufacturing contracted for 10 months straight, 70K jobs gone. Tariffs without industrial policy can't unf*ck decades of gutting our manufacturing base.
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The existential threats to the U.S. economy aren't yet AI bubbles or stock corrections—it's the yen carry trade unwinding, collapsing labor markets, and dollar devaluation. Trump accelerated a reckoning that was decades away.
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Fed Governor Miran accidentally admitted the truth: "After COVID, the economy started returning to normal on its own. Demand was growing quite healthily and jobs numbers were beating every month." Catch that? Under Biden.
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GDP grew 4.3% and Trump's taking a victory lap. But GDP doesn't measure if people can afford groceries or housing. It measures activity—and the activity happening is crushing working families. Let's unpack the real numbers.
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Trump's post stole the conversation we should be having about Reiner's legacy. His films defined a generation but reflected an America that never existed—papering over brutal realities while giving us enduring art.
🎧 Listen to the latest episode of #UNFTR: The Rob Reiner Conversation We Deserved.
The Democratic Party needs to recognize that repair isn't the job anymore—reimagining is. We rely entirely on the Fed's blunt instruments while monetary policy's relationship with employment has completely broken down.
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Trump claims he's the "President of Peace" while Congress just handed him a record-breaking $900B military budget—$8B more than he even asked for. Meanwhile, he's prosecuting regime change in Venezuela and bombing the Caribbean. Some peacemaker.
The latest from @rashedmian.bsky.social for #UNFTR.
