Economy

Private equity firms have acquired 400 US hospitals since 2018. The model: strip assets, cut staff, extract management fees, declare bankruptcy. The patients left holding claims on facilities that were looted.

The Federal Reserve balance sheet stands at $6.8 trillion. It controls interest rates that determine whether your kids can afford a house. And nobody voted for any of it.

Myrtle Beach draws 20 million visitors a year and pumps billions into South Carolina's economy. Conservative governance built that. Federal climate mandates are the only real threat on the horizon.

Bernie Sanders' wealth tax bill promises $3,600 annual checks while imposing an annual levy the Constitution almost certainly prohibits. European nations tried this exact tax and repealed it. The check is bait.

Trump's maximum pressure campaign against Iran is strategically correct, but financial pain at home is eroding the domestic will to see it through. Closing that gap is now the central challenge of the policy.

Tariffs are paid by American importing companies and passed to consumers as higher prices. The Tax Foundation estimated Trump's 2018 tariffs cost the average U.S. household $800 to $1,200 per year, a regressive tax hitting working families hardest.

The April 2026 jobs report added 228,000 positions and confirmed three months of upward revisions to Biden-era data, on top of a February benchmark correction that found Biden's final year overstated job creation by 818,000 positions.

Trump's March 2026 jobs report didn't just beat expectations, it exposed the statistical fiction underpinning Biden's celebrated economy. An 818,000-position downward revision by the Bureau of Labor Statistics means the Biden jobs boom never existed at the scale it was reported.

Maximum pressure on Iran requires sustained American economic capacity. That capacity is being eroded by tariffs, inflation, and political exhaustion at exactly the wrong strategic moment.

Trump's approval numbers are sliding. The Iran conflict is squeezing the economy. An honest editorial demands we ask: what exactly are we winning, and who's paying for it?

Kathy Ireland built a billion-dollar empire from a swimsuit. The left calls that luck. We call it America.

Bringing gas prices down while simultaneously running a military operation in the Persian Gulf requires threading a needle that has broken stronger administrations.

The media's answer to pain at the pump is seven tips for driving less. The actual answer is an energy policy that doesn't treat American oil production as a liability.

The consumer price index says inflation is cooling. Your receipt says otherwise. Here's the disconnect between the data and your dinner table.

Between rising interest rates, new compliance mandates, and a labor shortage nobody wants to fix, Main Street is fighting for survival while K Street writes the rules.

Every time a politician brags about tariffs hitting foreign countries, your grocery receipt tells a different story. The math has never changed.

Every point the oil price climbs costs American small businesses real money. The Iran escalation is now an economic policy whether Washington calls it one or not.

When millions of people vote with their U-Hauls, it's not a mystery, it's a verdict. And the cities getting emptied out wrote the judgment themselves.

The White House says the oil price surge is temporary. Markets don't care what the White House says. Here's what actually determines where energy prices go from here.

The Hill's annual celebration of influential women says more about how Washington defines power than about the women themselves.

Markets moved on the Iran news before the cable hosts finished their hot takes. Read the tape. It tells a cleaner story than the Senate floor.

When Smoothie King trends nationally, it's not a health craze. It's a distress signal from an economy where workers can't afford to stop moving.