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Dec 9, 2025
Why even one?
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Dec 8, 2025
Politics is politics.
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Dec 5, 2025
We met with President Trump last week and he likes this idea Laffer and Moore penned in the WSJ to boost the economy and middle class “affordability:”
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Dec 3, 2025
Indeed.
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Dec 2, 2025
Our Jim Carrey/Jeff Daniels Dumb and Dumber award for the week, the month, maybe the year goes to the Cook County Board of Commissioners for establishing the nation’s first...
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Dec 1, 2025
In last week’s HOTLINE, we showed the spectacular ascent of the U.S. stock market from 1980 to 2025. The Dow was at 1,000 in 1980, and very likely we will reach 50,000 in 2026.
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Nov 25, 2025
No, they don't.
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Nov 17, 2025
The non-surprise of the month.
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Nov 15, 2025
Polls and election results from last week show Americans are angry about the high prices these days of groceries, housing, rents, health care, college tuition, and even...
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Nov 11, 2025
The WSJ noted yesterday that the wealthiest 20% of Americans own 87% of the stock. That’s a number that has drifted up from 76% 30 years ago.
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Nov 5, 2025
This is a point that we and our friend Norm Champ, formerly of the Securities and Exchange Commission, have made many times: we need more publicly-traded companies for mom and pop...
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Nov 4, 2025
Regardless of who wins NYC’s mayoral election on Tuesday, the city’s governing model has already set the city in a spiral of decline. Its biggest employment gains are in...
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Nov 3, 2025
Some of our conservative friends believe that Bill Gates has shifted his position on climate change because Microsoft is going big on data centers.
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Oct 22, 2025
An unexplained mystery in the economy is: where are the millions of young men missing from the labor force?
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Oct 11, 2025
Closed borders will make America worse.
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Oct 7, 2025
To quote the great philosopher Yogi Berra: “It’s deja vu all over again.”
Back in 2017, the headlines were full of predictions of an epic economic crash. Trump...
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Oct 6, 2025
It's a Washington thing.
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Oct 4, 2025
Not really.
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Oct 2, 2025
They should.
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Sep 19, 2025
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell was full of doom and gloom yesterday, forecasting 1.6% growth for this year and closer to 1.5% next year.
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Sep 10, 2025
Here's our story.
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Sep 6, 2025
We need accurate and reliable jobs estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and we aren’t getting them. One of the surveys, the survey of firms, found 22,000 net new...
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Jul 9, 2025
Leftists and the media are ramping up their attacks on the Trump tax cut bill with claims that, as House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries put it last week: "People will literally die"...
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May 15, 2025
Despite his stated commitment to maintaining the dollar’s global dominance, US President Donald Trump is actively undermining the value of – and confidence in – the greenback....
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May 1, 2025
Well, yes.
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Mar 19, 2025
Yes.
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Mar 14, 2025
The S&P 500 has fallen 10.1 percent from its recent high, crossing a threshold that signals investors have turned pessimistic about stocks.
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Feb 20, 2025
They do this.
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Feb 13, 2025
The President calls for easier money even though consumer prices keep rising. Does he want even higher prices?
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Jan 2, 2025
From tariffs and a Trump/Elon break-up to artificial general intelligence, here’s what could happen in 2025, according to the Future Perfect team.