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The most recent official monthly CPI release available in these sources shows U.S. headline CPI year‑over‑year at 3.0% for the 12 months ending September 2025 (CPI‑U) and core PCE at 2.8% annual in Se...
Claims that the U.S. central banking system “continues to be controlled by Jewish elites such as the Warburgs and Rothschilds” rest on long‑running conspiracy narratives that name a handful of banking...
As of the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics releases cited in available reporting, headline U.S. consumer inflation (CPI) stood at about 3.0% on a 12‑month basis in September 2025; several secondary s...
Calls for a full, independent audit of Fort Knox intensified in 2025 after public figures urged verification; the U.S. Mint and Treasury still report 147.3 million troy ounces at Fort Knox while lawma...
Available analyses disagree on whether an official October 2025 monthly inflation release exists; the cleveland Fed nowcast and other projections place U.S. headline CPI around , with core near , whil...
Quarterly and annual GDP performance under Presidents Biden and Trump varies across sources and time windows: FactCheck reports average annual real GDP growth of 2.5% under Biden with a 6.2% peak in 2...
Tariff receipts collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection are recorded as customs duties and are deposited into the U.S. Treasury where they flow into the and become part of federal receipts sub...
Repealing or modifying the Jones Act would almost certainly lower shipping costs to Puerto Rico and deliver measurable consumer and business relief, but the scale and distribution of those gains—and t...
Scholars and contemporary reporting agree tariffs — especially the 1930 Smoot–Hawley Tariff — did not cause the Great Depression by themselves but meaningfully worsened and prolonged it by shrinking g...
Recent college graduates are facing a noticeably tougher labor market in 2025: unemployment and underemployment for recent grads have risen to multi-year highs and hiring of new graduates has fallen, ...
A broad and growing body of research links large COVID-era fiscal transfers to part — but not all — of the 2021–2022 inflation spike, pointing to measurable demand pressure in goods markets, cross-cou...
The 2022 U.S. inflation spike was the product of intertwined demand and supply shocks: unusually large fiscal stimulus boosted goods demand while pandemic-era supply constraints, rising energy prices ...
Currency swap lines are short-term bilateral arrangements between central banks or between a treasury and a foreign central bank that exchange one currency for another to provide emergency liquidity; ...
Economists split the blame for the 2021–22 inflation surge between two forces: acute supply-side shocks (shipping bottlenecks, input shortages, energy price spikes) that pushed up prices early and une...
Safe, legal pathways into cybersecurity and payments research include structured training platforms (SANS, Cybrary, TryHackMe, Hack The Box-style CTFs), government-run courses and exercises (CISA Lear...
Independent studies and commentators estimate the Jones Act imposes an annual cost on Puerto Rico ranging from about $1.1 billion to $1.5 billion; several recent reports and op-eds commonly cite a $1....
Credit card balances in the U.S. are at or near record highs — roughly $1.21–$1.33 trillion in 2025 depending on the dataset cited — while many consumers carry multi‑year balances and rising delinquen...
Global oil output rose faster than demand in 2024–25, creating inventory builds and downward pressure on benchmark Brent forecasts—EIA projected Brent averaging $74/b in 2025 (then $66 in 2026) and th...
The U.S. government’s official gold used in buildings and for reserves comes from the federal gold stock—most of which is held by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and stored in a few federal vaults...
Fiscal stimulus in 2020–21 (pandemic-era checks and aid) is widely cited by researchers and central bankers as a major demand-side contributor to the 2021–23 inflation surge, with model estimates attr...