1+ hour, 8+ min ago  (152+ words) Daily Kos This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. Trump on the campaign trail: "I will end inflation on Day 1." Trump on 10 June 2026: "No, I love it. I love the inflation." TRUMP: "I'm…...

1+ hour, 59+ min ago  (198+ words) Daily Kos Trump listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, on May 27, in Washington. Inflation continues to rise, according to a new Bureau of Labor Statistics report, due in no small part to President Donald Trumps chaotic and…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago  (175+ words) Daily Kos Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett appeared on Fox Business Tuesday wearing his trademark petrified smile, and attempted to spin skyrocketing consumer costs as a sign of economic optimism. "The thing that I've seen when I…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (399+ words) Daily Kos This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. During WW II and in the first years following, income tax rates were highly progressive and marginal rates went up to around 90%. They declined…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (184+ words) It is a law that men possessed of this peculiar talent for affairs [business], under the free play of economic forces [free markets], must, of necessity...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (204+ words) Daily Kos While the U. S. Economy Burns This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. Nearly 2000 years ago, Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and we're still talking about it today. Now the American economy is…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (245+ words) Director of painful smiling at the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett wants to frame rising consumer debt as good news during President Donald Trump's second term in office." "I had the head of one of the big five banks in…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (185+ words) Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and President Donald Trump's never-right counselor Peter Navarro held a press conference Monday blaming inflation'particularly sky-high beef prices'on former President Joe Biden and what Rollins described as the "hoax" of climate change. Pointing to a shrinking…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (331+ words) is the title of the article by NBC News at www. nbcnews. com/, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the employment numbers this morning. www. bls. gov/ Both total nonfarm payroll employment (+50, 000) and the unemployment rate (4. 4 percent) changed…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (147+ words) The impact of the Iran War oil shock, with its distress to households, businesses, farms, supply chains and international alliances is only prologue to an even more profound dislocation of the US and the world's economies. This is not happy…...