If allowed, Congress would then be able to set any wealth level for special taxation...

...but forward-looking permits plunged.

...basically unchanged since Nov 2021

The increased costs will do more than raise prices at the pump...setting back Trump's “affordability” agenda.

...the disinflationary trend continues to show no signs of the terrors of Trump-tariff-flation... but March will be a very different picture given the Energy spike...

...agents seized $1.3 million in cash, a 2021 Rolls Royce Cullinan, a 2021 Chevrolet Corvette, and a 2020 Chevrolet Silverado.

“Housing affordability is improving, and consumers are responding,”

...according to ADP, private employers added the most jobs last week since Thanksgiving.

Luxury timepieces are one of the most effective mediums to move illicit funds around the globe and a tool to integrate those ill-gotten gains into the financial system...

Everything is more expensive...

Since the pandemic, the line between passive investing and aggressive speculation has blurred.

"...a nice reprieve from the elevated job cut plans to start the year."

‘California’s tax laws incentivize homeowners to stay in their homes for a long time,’ Redfin said. 

Every high-income household that relocates from Sacramento to South Florida takes its future income tax payments - and its business payroll - with it...

The irony is that Texas and Florida could end up not only with more jobs but better baseball players...

Iran tops the list with a projected 55.9% surge, far above the global average of 3.2%...

The bottom line is that this will likely lead to a hotter than expected Core PCE print - something The Fed watches closely.

Unadjusted claims tumbled to the lowest since September...

“We’re on the Titanic, and we see the iceberg...”

“We must find ways of returning far more of our dependent people to independence.”