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Letters from an American – August 23, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American August 23, 2025, By Heather Cox Richardson “It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wrote yesterday afternoon on social…
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The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake – The Atlantic
Real estate should be treated as consumption, not investment. By Jerusalem Demsas, December 20, 2022 [Editor’s Note: I’m not sure on this one; perhaps…] It is a truth universally acknowledged that an American in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a mortgage. I don’t know if you should buy a house.…
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Amtrak funding in the infrastructure bill: A plan to fix up America’s passenger rail
What the beleaguered operator should do with $66 billion from Congress. By Henry Grabar, July 30, 202112:31 PM Amtrak Joe delivers. The bipartisan infrastructure bill that seems likely to pass the Senate contains $66 billion for intercity rail, which is pretty damn close to the $80 billion President Joe Biden asked for in April. The…
