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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...
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...
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...
is facing renewed public and political pressure to repatriate substantial portions of its gold reserves now stored in vaults, driven by concerns about the unpredictability of and . While economists, l...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The (ESF) is a reserve created in 1934 to enable rapid foreign-exchange and related financial operations; by statute it can buy and sell foreign currencies, hold Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and prov...
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 ...
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, ...
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...
The claim "" is a broad, conspiratorial assertion that is not supported by the public structure, governance, or ownership records of the cited in mainstream reporting: the Fed is a with a presidential...
Between 2013 and 2017 the moved roughly 674 tonnes of gold from back to — about 300 tonnes from and about 374 tonnes from — completing a announced in 2013 three years ahead of its 2020 target . The op...
Public reporting shows central banks have repatriated gold from Western vaults (notably from , and ) and that has built custody and trading infrastructure to attract foreign reserves, but the sources ...
—meaning a sustained shift by foreign central banks and investors away from dollar assets—would raise term premia on Treasuries, amplify and, through a weaker dollar and higher imported prices, exert ...
administrations have long relied on a mix of executive sanctions, legal tools tied to U.S. correspondent banking relationships, and multilateral cooperation to freeze — and occasionally transfer — for...