Personal Finance
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Fed’s Powell: Rate Cuts Likely This Year, but More Evidence Is Needed
(Headline USA) With former President Donald Trump having already announced last month that he would not keep Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chairman, Tuesday’s GOP primary blowout may have given Powell all the evidence he needed that it wasn’t the right time to cut interest rates and jumpstart the economy—just yet. That will likely be…
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Ukraine War Architect Victoria Nuland to Retire This Month
(Headline USA) Victoria Nuland, the third-highest ranking U.S. diplomat and frequent target of criticism for her hawkish views on Russia and its actions in Ukraine, will leave her post this month, the State Department said Tuesday. Nuland, a career foreign service officer who served as assistant secretary of State for Europe during the Obama administration…
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More Inflationary Woes: In One Year, Car Insurance Rates Surge 26%
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Car insurance rates surged 26% nationwide in the past year and are expected to remain elevated until 2025. That’s according to the “True Cost of Auto Insurance” report from Bankrate, an independent comparison service company. The report used the most recent median income data from the U.S. Census Bureau to…
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U.S. Adding $1 Trillion in Debt Every 3 Months Since Last June
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. began adding $1 trillion worth of debt about every three months beginning last June, a Bank of America investment strategist Michael Hartnett first pointed out in an investment note published last week. The national debt is currently $34.48 trillion and rising. It surpassed $34 trillion for the first…
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4,000 Criminals Escape Haiti’s Prisons Amid U.S. Border Crime Concerns
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An estimated total of 4,000 incarcerated individuals escaped from two of Haiti’s largest prisons following armed clashes between the national police and armed gangs, according to multiple local media outlets on Sunday. Haiti’s national police union reported on Sunday evening that armed gangs fired “many shots” intending to dismantle the police force.…
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‘You Sick F**k’: Manchin Stands Up to Heckler in Viral Altercation
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., ignited a Twitter frenzy Friday following the viral altercation with hecklers led by Climate Defiance, a left-wing environmentalist group. Manchin’s clash with a heckler at a Harvard University event went viral on social media, leading to the man being pushed to the ground. “You sold our futures and…
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Since Obama Era, 80% of Doctors Have Become Woke Leftists
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Kevin Bass, a doctor who has been canceled for noticing patterns of wokeness in the medical field, offered research showing that the medical field has shifted far leftward at an increasingly rapid rate over the past 20 years. In December, Bass tweeted the graphical results of a study using Stanford Prof.…
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Biden Announces Another $1.2 Billion in Illegal Student Loan Debt Forgiveness
(Headline USA) The Biden administration announced this week it will transfer another $1.2 billion in student-loan debt from more than 150,000 borrowers to taxpayers at large, despite a Supreme Court ruling last year that made clear the executive branch lacks the authority to do so without congressional action. President Joe Biden plans to sign an…
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Trump Claims Chris Wallace Called to Apologize for Helping Biden in 2020 Debate
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) GREENVILLE, SC—At Tuesday’s town hall event with Fox News host Laura Ingraham in South Carolina, former President Donald Trump said he had “breaking news”: Former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace has apologized to him for assisting Joe Biden in a 2020 campaign debate. Harkening back the 2020 campaign debates, Trump talked…
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Economists: Recession on Horizon | Headline USA
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – Americans should brace for and expect a recession this year, economists are warning, arguing the details of the latest jobs report are not a good indicator. Even though the Federal Reserve has not yet forecasted a recession and is expected to cut the Fed funds rate in March, some…
