Send us a text The numbers shouldn’t look like this—and yet they do. A projected trade deficit gets sliced nearly in half, imports fall, exports rise, and we’re left asking whether tariffs and domestic substitution are quietly reshaping the real economy. We take that momentum into the mortgage market, where a proposed $200B purchase of mortgage bonds by Fannie and Freddie could pull rates down and, more importantly, tweak the way new money enters the system. If housing finance is a primary en...
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Send us a text The numbers shouldn’t look like this—and yet they do. A projected trade deficit gets sliced nearly in half, imports fall, exports rise, and we’re left asking whether tariffs and domestic substitution are quietly reshaping the real economy. We take that momentum into the mortgage market, where a proposed $200B purchase of mortgage bonds by Fannie and Freddie could pull rates down and, more importantly, tweak the way new money enters the system. If housing finance is a primary en...
When Reality Stops Correcting Bad Ideas, Societies Drift And People Pay The Price
Peasants Perspective
2 hours 16 minutes
2 weeks ago
When Reality Stops Correcting Bad Ideas, Societies Drift And People Pay The Price
Send us a text Start with a hard moment: Christmas Eve in prison feels like any other day. From there, we pull on threads that keep unspooling—why CPS too often beats context, why business and engineering correct bad ideas while certain departments drift, and how a missing civics education leaves voters fluent in vibes and illiterate in structure. The point isn’t to score culture points; it’s to reconnect cause and effect so policy stops breaking people. We weigh the data and the lived reali...
Peasants Perspective
Send us a text The numbers shouldn’t look like this—and yet they do. A projected trade deficit gets sliced nearly in half, imports fall, exports rise, and we’re left asking whether tariffs and domestic substitution are quietly reshaping the real economy. We take that momentum into the mortgage market, where a proposed $200B purchase of mortgage bonds by Fannie and Freddie could pull rates down and, more importantly, tweak the way new money enters the system. If housing finance is a primary en...
