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Economy

Markets, inflation, main street.

Dissenter’s Economy desk covers inflation, jobs, energy prices, the Federal Reserve, and trade — with an eye on how Washington policy lands on working families and small business, not just Wall Street headlines.

Latest: July 20, 2026

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Trump Touts $3.47 Gas, Media Targets Owners Not Policy Failures

The establishment press is digging into discount fuel station owners instead of the policy failures that made $3.47 gas worth celebrating.

5h ago

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Gas Hits $4 as Iran Standoff Chokes Strait of Hormuz

Washington's foreign escalation is a direct tax at the pump—and Main Street pays the price.

7h ago

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FDA's False Positive Forced Taylor Farms Recall, Costing Millions

The FDA admitted its faulty test wrongly linked Taylor Farms lettuce to a parasite outbreak, but an American company is already out millions—and no one is accountable.

10h ago

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NCAA Five-for-Five Rule Squeezes High School Recruits, Sarkisian Admits

College programs hoard veteran labor while locking out high school recruits—and the NCAA cartel couldn't care less.

14h ago

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California Shack Sells for $900K — Same Price as Burned-Down Maryland Home

A Sebastopol relic costs the same as ashes — housing has become a wealth extraction machine.

15h ago

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Kentucky Families Pay $14K/Year for Degrees, Most Get Zero AI Training

State universities cash checks up to $7,000 a semester while leaving most students with zero training for the AI economy.

1d ago

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Kroger Wins Store-Brand Grocery Price War. That's The Crisis.

Kroger wins a price war on generic groceries while a quarter of working-age Americans charge food to credit cards.

1d ago

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Taylor Farms Parasite Lettuce Sickens 1,600 in 27 States, Recall Falls Short

1,600+ sick as corporate ag giant's tainted lettuce hits Walmart and Taco Bell — new positive test proves the recall is too small.

1d ago

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Wall Street Pumps Unprofitable UroGen Pharma as Shorts Bet on a Crash

Analysts pump a profitless stock while shorts bet on a crash, leaving retail investors holding the bag.

2d ago

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West Hollywood Pipe Burst Floods Streets as City Funds Woke Projects

A 108-year-old water main blew out, swamping West Hollywood while leaders funneled cash into Pride and DEI instead of basic infrastructure.

2d ago

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Mortgage Rates Hit 2026 High on Foreign Conflict, Wealthy Already Out

Foreign conflicts drive up your mortgage. The wealthy already moved their money.

3d ago

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Meta's $10B AI Lease to Anthropic Turns Censor Into AI Landlord

Anthropic's multi-billion dollar computing deal would make the conservative-censoring platform a landlord for the AI shaping American work and speech.

3d ago

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SpaceX Down 44%: Wall Street Underwater While Musk Builds What Matters

Speculators dump SpaceX, pile into puts — but the infrastructure keeps flying and serving American interests

3d ago

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S&P 500 Profits Surge 25.7% While Penn State Families Face Tuition Hike

Wall Street celebrates and central bankers play games — but Penn State families just got handed another bill.

3d ago

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Public Universities Blow $43M on AD Pay, Probes as Families Foot Bill

Illinois hands its athletic director $31 million while Michigan spends $12 million investigating its own scandal-plagued department.

3d ago

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Fed Keeps Rate Hikes on Table as 'Cooling' Inflation Still Hammers Main Street

Wall Street cheers 3.5% inflation. Your grocery bill tells the real story.

3d ago

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Alphabet Stock Sinks on Gemini Delays, Retail Investors Pay

Google's flagship AI model is months behind schedule, stock is sliding, and retail investors are left holding the bag

4d ago

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Fed's Logan Calls for Higher Rates, Main Street Pays the Tab

Dallas Fed's Lorie Logan demands higher borrowing costs as working Americans drown in credit card debt and get locked out of housing.

4d ago

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Mortgage Rates Hit 6.55%, Locking Out Working Americans

The Fed's rate hikes and Washington's spending spree keep borrowing costs sky-high, pricing out everyday Americans even as inflation cools.

4d ago

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New Housing Law: Feds Tell Your Town How Many Homes to Build or Lose Your Money

Bipartisan housing law ties federal grants to local construction quotas, shifting zoning power from your neighborhood to Washington.

4d ago

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Warren Claims Housing Win, Demands Price Caps for Washington's Crisis

The senator celebrates a bipartisan housing bill, then pivots to credit card and grocery price controls—ignoring the federal policies that put working families on the debt treadmill.

4d ago

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