The latest employment numbers reveal exactly why small businesses are suing President Trump over his tariff policies: tariffs hit small firms and lower-income consumers the hardest, functioning as a stealth tax that now adds anywhere from 20% to over 50% to the cost of many goods compared with last year. And the results are now […]
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Small Businesses Are the First Casualties of Trump’s Tariff Economy — And the Jobs Data Proves It
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Tariffs, Protectionism, and Economic Self-Harm: Why Costco’s Lawsuit Exposes a Bigger National Problem
Costco Has Sued the U.S. Government — and It Highlights the Bigger Failure of Trump’s Tariff Policy Costco has filed suit against the U.S. government — specifically U.S. Customs and Border Protection — to preserve its ability to receive a full refund on tariffs it has already paid, should the Supreme Court ultimately rule that […]
Instant Engineering: How AI Shrinks Design Cycles From Weeks to Hours
by Daniel Brouse December 1, 2025 Today, NVIDIA and Synopsys announced a major expansion of their strategic partnership—backed by a $2 billion equity investment from NVIDIA—to “reimagine engineering and design” through AI, accelerated computing, and advanced digital twin technologies. This collaboration is not just a business deal; it marks the beginning of a fundamental shift […]
Trump’s Fiscal Volatility and the Rising Global Risk: How Political Interference Is Destabilizing the Dollar and the World Economy
There are several interlocking elements of Donald Trump’s fiscal and political strategy that are increasingly destabilizing the global economy. As international markets grow more risk-averse, the persistent uncertainty surrounding U.S. institutions — particularly the financial and judicial systems — is eroding confidence in the dollar. The global economy still relies on the dollar as its […]
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The Collapse Point: How Climate Change Is Breaking Insurance — and Capitalism With It
by Daniel Breouse / November 26, 2025 As extreme weather accelerates, humanity is nearing a tipping point where insurance — and the economic system built upon it — may no longer function. One of the world’s largest insurers, Allianz SE, has issued an unusually blunt warning: the climate crisis is destabilizing global capitalism from within, […]
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Record Deficit, Falling Confidence, and Rising Prices: Today’s Economic Data Paints a Bleak Picture
The U.S. economy delivered another round of troubling signals today, November 25, 2025, as new data from multiple federal agencies showed weakening consumer confidence, persistent inflation pressures, and a federal deficit spiraling far beyond expectations — despite record tariff revenue. A Deficit Explosion Masked by Tariff Receipts The U.S. Treasury Department reported a $284 billion […]
Sudden Sea Level Pulses: How “Cork Release” Ice-Sheet Failures Could Rapidly Reshape Global Coastlines
By Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee November 25, 2025 Introduction: The Shift From Gradual to Abrupt Sea Level Rise Sea level rise (SLR) is one of the most revealing indicators of the accelerating pace of climate change. A century ago, global SLR was doubling roughly every 100 years. Ten years ago the doubling time had […]
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A Treasury Secretary Out of His Depth: Bessent’s Bungled Defense of Rising Prices and Tariff Failures
The Treasury Secretary offered up a last-ditch, visibly strained defense on NBC’s Meet the Press while discussing the administration’s sudden decision to roll back tariffs on a range of food products. What followed was one of the most awkward and revealing interviews of the administration’s economic team to date. When journalist Kristen Welker pressed Bessent, […]
The Non-Linear Acceleration of Climate Change: Evidence, Confirmation, and the Emerging Domino Effect
By Sidd Mukherjee and Daniel BrouseNovember 22, 2025 In the 1990s, we developed what became known as The Non-Linear Acceleration Hypothesis—the proposition that climate change is not progressing linearly but is accelerating exponentially. Working together, with Sidd’s background as a Doctor of Physics from Ohio State and my own experimental and observational analyses, we produced […]
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How Bitcoin’s Shift to a Risk-Off Asset Is Rewiring Market Dynamics
By Daniel Brouse November 20, 2025 Bitcoin has fallen from $120,000 to under $90,000 in just six weeks. What’s behind the move?Two forces are doing most of the work: 1. Leverage: The Amplifier Behind the Drop While we can’t pin down an exact percentage of leveraged Bitcoin exposure, it is unquestionably large, reflexive, and sensitive […]