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The annual U.S. inflation rate for the 12 months ending January 2025 was 3.0 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI) data and contemporaneous reporting . That ...
Immigration — legal and illegal — increases housing demand, but experts and major studies say it is not the dominant cause of the U.S. affordability crisis; constrained supply, zoning and native-born ...
COMEX “Issues and Stops” delivery reports are a primary, line‑level window into who is standing for physical silver, who is delivering it, and how much metal is assigned as deliverable versus held as ...
Conspiracy theories that financier J.P. Morgan orchestrated the sinking of the Titanic rest on a cluster of coincidences: Morgan owned the shipping interests tied to the White Star Line, reportedly ca...
Virtual credit cards are temporary, digital card numbers tied to an underlying credit or bank account that function like a normal card for online and sometimes in‑person payments, and they’re used wid...
The available reporting shows that headline U.S. CPI inflation for calendar year 2024 was about , while the most recent 2025 monthly year‑over‑year readings cited in these sources are roughly (Septemb...
Tariffs raise government revenue and can protect some domestic industries, but multiple recent analyses and news reports find sizable economic costs: models project long‑run GDP declines (~0.3–0.8%), ...
Illegal (undocumented) immigrants affect the U.S. housing market primarily by adding demand—especially in the rental sector—and by supplying critical labor to construction, but the magnitude and direc...
Jeffrey Epstein used a fleet that included a Boeing 727 and other jets to shuttle guests — including, according to victims’ accounts and reporting, young women to his Little St. James island — and he ...
Major job gains between 2024 and early 2025 were concentrated in health care, leisure & hospitality, and government; health care added an average 57,000 jobs per month in 2024 and was a top source of ...
Tariffs introduced in 2025 have contributed a measurable bump to U.S. inflation: central estimates put the near-term addition to headline PCE at roughly 0.4–0.5 percentage points (June–August annualiz...
Jeffrey Epstein maintained documented relationships and touchpoints with figures across the political spectrum, and recent reporting and congressional actions in 2025 have highlighted . Multiple 2025 ...
Selling every share of a stock before year-end does not automatically prevent a wash sale; the IRS disallows a loss if the same or a “substantially identical” security was acquired within 30 days befo...
Short-term moves in copper-mining equities are driven almost entirely by near-term copper price swings, news-driven supply shocks, and company-level operational updates, not by multi-year fundamentals...
Inflation in 2025 was driven by a mix of housing and medical-care price strength, a rebound in goods prices (partly tied to tariffs), and episodic energy and food swings; headline CPI hit about 2.9–3....
Economists and market forecasters disagree: big banks and research groups currently place the odds of a U.S. recession in 2025 well below certainty — J.P. Morgan lowered its 2025 recession probability...
Reporting in November 2025 focuses on a push in Congress to force release of more Jeffrey Epstein-related documents and on batches of files already put online by House Republicans; available reporting...
The evidence is mixed but leans toward ; inflation has eased in some measures and select categories may get cheaper soon, yet core price pressures—especially shelter and construction costs—remain elev...
Global reporting from industry groups, banks and market commentators indicates that since 2021 —annual demand has exceeded mine production and recycling in multiple recent years—driving inventory draw...
— a four-decade who began his career at in 1979 — in 2015, after the bank’s metals division had passed through a series of owners and restructurings (MG/// → J.P. Morgan) during his long tenure . Subs...