With the median U.S. home price hovering around $400,000 and mortgage interest rates stuck between 6.5 and 7 percent, fewer people can afford to buy homes than in the recent past.
Category: 15 July 2025
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
After a pause in layoffs in late spring, early summer, U.S. government jobs are again on the chopping block.
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WALL STREET BANKS SEE A HAPPY EARNINGS SEASON AHEAD
Investment banks are not letting weakening consumer spending or debris from Donald Trump’s trade war spoil their sunny view of Wall Street’s earning season that begins this week.
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TRUMP GIVES RUSSIA A 50-DAY DEADLINE TO END THE WAR IN UKRAINE…OR ELSE
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he will rush Patriot missiles to Ukraine, ramp up weapons support and impose new tariffs against Moscow if a peace deal is not delivered in 50 days.
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TRUMP SAYS ‘NATO’ IS PAYING FOR NEW U.S. WEAPONS
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that his administration will provide Ukraine with Patriot missiles and will surge weapons into the country if Moscow does not agree to end the war within 50 days—and he told reporters that, unlike the previous administration, NATO countries will pay for the weapons.
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BIOLOGICAL AGE OF BRAIN LINKED TO LONGEVITY, STUDY SAYS
A newly released study found that the biological age of a human brain plays a major role in a person’s longevity, even more so than the biological age of other organs or muscle tissue.
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NEW STUDY FINDS THERE ARE MORE NANOPLASTICS IN THE OCEAN THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
A new study published in the journal Nature said there are at least 27 million metric tons of nanoplastics—which are invisible to the naked eye—in the North Atlantic seas, which researchers said was a “shocking amount.”
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TRUMP’S BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL ALLOCATES $170B FOR IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AMID CRACKDOWN
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill, which was signed into law earlier this month, earmarks $170 billion for immigration enforcement, which comes in at about two-thirds of all federal law enforcement spending, according to the Financial Times.
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GERMANY ON THE MARCH: BERLIN WANTS WEAPONS TO BE PRODUCED FASTER
Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, said in an interview that weapons makers need to up their game and start pumping out supplies to meet the moment.
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TRUMP SAYS HE’S TIRED OF PUTIN’S BULLSHIT
As we’d say in The Bronx, “Bullshit has its own sound. And now bullshit President Trump, who told the American people that if he was elected he would end the Ukraine War in 24 hours, has soured on President Vladimir Putin who he said has thrown a lot of “bullshit” during negotiations to end the war.