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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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 […]
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 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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The Physics of Violent Rain: Turning Ordinary Storms Into Catastrophic Events
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee November 18, 2025 We’ve been working specifically on the physics of what we now call violent rain, and once you fully understand latent heat, the entire climate system reveals a deeper and far more alarming complexity. Latent heat is not just a chapter in a textbook; it is the […]
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