Because sometimes things just need to be said….
August’s jobs report came in Friday morning, and it was a good one: 162,000 jobs added, more than double what economists were expecting, unemployment holding steady at 4.1 percent. That’s normally a number worth celebrating. Instead, a few hours later, the president threatened to stop trading with most of the world. At 9:56am, he posted …
In February, six Supreme Court justices told Donald Trump his tariffs were illegal. Two of the six were his own appointees. His response was to call them fools, question their loyalty, and keep charging you the tariffs anyway. Here’s the part that should bother you more than the insult. On February 20, in Learning Resources …
Nobody likes buying a car from a dealership. That’s not really an opinion at this point, it’s just consensus. A widely cited industry survey found 87% of people disliked something about the process, and if you’ve ever spent an afternoon waiting for a stranger to “check with his manager” over a number that was never …
Nobody at the Federal Reserve wants to use the word “bailout.” So they didn’t. Since last fall, the New York Fed has pumped more than $420 billion into Wall Street through repo operations — short-term loans where banks hand over Treasury bills as collateral and walk away with cash. The Fed used to cap this …
Try buying more than a box or two of Sudafed at once. A pharmacist will look at you funny, ask a question, maybe make a phone call. Nobody calls that a war on cold sufferers. We built an entire national system, prescription drug monitoring programs, specifically to flag people buying suspicious quantities of controlled substances …
Eighty-six percent of Americans want to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks. Republicans and Democrats can’t agree on much lately — this is one of the rare things they do, and by a landslide. So naturally, the bill that actually passed the House this summer doesn’t ban it. On July 22, the House …
Your electric bill went up again this year. Mine did too — about $110 more than last year, which happens to land right around the national average increase. Meanwhile, the companies sending you that bill just wrapped up their best five years ever. From 2021 to 2025, investor-owned electric utilities pocketed $244 billion in profit …
Gary Woodland is playing East Lake this week, and I want you to sit with that sentence for a second before I tell you why it matters. Three years ago, Woodland had brain surgery to remove a tumor. That’s the kind of sentence that usually ends a career, not launches a comeback. It didn’t end …
Warren Buffett’s secretary has paid a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett for years now, and somehow that’s still true in 2026. It’s not because the tax code has a soft spot for old men who like Cherry Coke — it’s because the way the ultra-rich actually get paid barely resembles a paycheck, and the …
Congress released this year’s Congressional Pig Book in May, and the top line is $23.7 billion spread across 8,392 earmarks, the fourth-highest total since anyone started keeping score in 1991. That’s already a lot of money. But the number that actually made me stop scrolling wasn’t the total. It was the door. Senator Chuck Schumer …
Eight straight wins, capped off by an 11-7 sweep-clincher over Detroit this weekend. For a few days, Kauffman Stadium felt like 2024 again, back before this team apparently forgot how to win a baseball game for four straight months. Here’s the number that doesn’t make the highlight package: 58-74. That’s the record after the streak, …
Bunting is having a real moment in Major League Baseball this year, and I hate that I have to admit some of it is actually working. As a lifelong Royals fan, I’ve spent years watching a perfectly good rally get strangled because someone in the dugout decided a free out was a good trade. So …