Media stories erupted recently about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) financial dealings. “Stock market watchdog claims Nancy Pelosi raked in $4.7M in a single day of trading,” reads one headline about the 38-year House member from San Francisco, who was speaker from 2007 to 2011 and 2019 to 2023. “Nancy Pelosi outperforms major hedge funds with […]

After months, the massive GOP tax cuts and spending bill is heading to President Donald Trump’s desk to become law. Republicans pushed the bill through the House in a 218-214 vote on Thursday, a day ahead of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Fourth of July deadline. The megabill, dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, makes […]

For a couple of years or so in the mid-1990s, it seemed like every fourth pop song on the radio was by the Gin Blossoms. The jangly guitar-riffed, post-grunge, alt-rock band scored decent, if not blockbuster, commercial success. Highlighted by the group’s jealous guy breakout tune, “Found Out About You.” That track, sung from the […]

Farmers are feeling a little bit better about how things are going for their sector of the economy under President Donald Trump, after tariff fears spooked them. That is one reasonable way to read the last several months’ results of the Ag Economy Barometer, a nationwide joint survey by Purdue University and the CME Group […]