Economic forecasting has always carried uncertainty, but under Trump’s current fiscal and trade agenda, that uncertainty has exploded to levels not seen in a century. Policies that economists—left, right, and center—have avoided for 100 years are suddenly being deployed at massive scale. Chief among them: unprecedented import taxation and the largest tariff regime in modern […]
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Florida at the Front Line: How Accelerating Sea-Level Rise Is Reshaping the State in Real Time
by Daniel Brouse December 5, 2025 Florida faces a long list of climate-driven threats — extreme heat, stronger hurricanes, toxic algal blooms, and collapsing insurance markets — but accelerating sea-level rise (SLR) sits at the center of nearly all of them. Although the current rise of a few millimeters per year may sound trivial, the […]
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Small Businesses Are the First Casualties of Trump’s Tariff Economy — And the Jobs Data Proves It
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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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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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 […]
The Epstein Files Cover-Up: Trump’s Two-Term Obstruction Exposed
“…At my direction, the Dept. of Justice has already turned over close to fifty thousand pages of documents to Congress. Do not forget — The Biden Admin did not turn over a SINGLE file or page related to Democrat Epstein, nor did they ever even speak about him. Democrats have used the “Epstein” issue, which […]
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The Trade Deficit Shrinks — and So Does America’s Economic Pulse
The U.S. trade deficit for August 2025 came in at $59.6 billion, down sharply from a revised $78.2 billion in July. On the surface, this might look like good news for an administration obsessed with shrinking the trade gap. In reality, it is a warning sign — and yet another indictment of Trump’s misguided, economically […]
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The Growing Threat to Press Freedom: How Trump’s Influence Is Reaching Beyond U.S. Borders
When a reporter asked him about Epstein, he responded by snapping, “Quiet. Quiet, piggy.” It is becoming increasingly difficult — and dangerous — to report on Donald Trump. This trend began in the United States and is now extending into the United Kingdom. Trump’s attacks on the press, combined with the increasingly aggressive behavior of […]
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