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The EU Trade Deal: Are You Tired of Winning Yet?
Trump scores the biggest trade deal of them all, fresh off huge wins with China and Japan, plus NATO's commitment to a 250% defense spending increase.
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Putin’s War Is Lost. Peace Might Finish Him.
There's a reason Russia's strongman can't get serious about peace. It's not that he thinks he's going to win. That's the logjam Trump hopes to break…
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Rod's Interview on "The China Desk"
A wide-ranging discussion on the China threat - and opportunity - from the Chinese Civil War to Trump's trade war today, how to avoid war, and how to…
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The America Party Is A Bad Idea...For Elon
Musk's entry into American civic life has been highly positive. But the legalities surrounding his new political party could derail his plans, and his…
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VICTORY! Trump's Big Beautiful Bill and Its Permanent Tax Cut Will Change the World
The bill is the capstone of years of work to create a pro-growth tax policy that will make the American economy so strong we'll leave Europe in the dust…
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Juneteenth: No, America's Wealth Wasn't Built By Slaves - Slavery Held Us Back
There's a reason the North wiped out the South: free men create, innovate and prosper, slavery freezes development in place. By 1861, the difference was…
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🚨BREAKING: Israel-Iran Hot War, U.S.-China Trade War. What It All Means🚨
Israel's decapitation strike against Iran's leadership and nuclear site, PLUS Trump's massive trade victory with China. Quick analysis: what's happening…
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The Unreported Economic Boom, and Why Elon is Wrong about the Big Beautiful Bill
Is the world's richest man wrong to demand more cuts? Heck no: federal spending is a disgrace. But his argument misses the bigger picture.
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Earth-to-Earth Starship: How SpaceX Is About to Revolutionize Travel and Shrink the World
Starship will transform not just Space, but Earth, in exactly the same way that airliners and automobiles changed a world of steamships, trains, and…
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China's Great Leap Backward: So Much For the Next Dominant Superpower
The Chinese century is over. Facing upside-down demographic and economic trends, China is heading off the cliff. Trump's tariffs make that much, much…
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Commerce Not Chaos: The Emerging Trump Doctrine
Deep Dive: Trump believes nations don’t need to agree on theology, ideology, or even morality to coexist or thrive together. They just need to need each…
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Rod on American Family Radio: "Real Truth for Today with Pastor Jeff Schreve"
Around the world in an hour: Trump's Middle East deals; Who won on China trade?; Is Congress getting anything done?; Prescription drugs; 50,000 on the…
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