Mortgage rates have moved within 11 basis points of their 2025 low since late October. However, President Trump’s push for government mortgage originators Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy $200 billion worth of mortgage bonds could be the boost mortgage rates need to finally fall below 6 percent. The national 30-year fixed mortgage average … Read more
Marc Bruxelle / Shutterstock.com On November 9, 2025, President Trump proposed a new round of direct payments to all American taxpayers, similar to those made during the COVID era. This time, however, those wages were to be funded from tariff revenue, and the plan was for all eligible Americans to receive $2,000, though high earners … Read more
Democrats’ fearmongering about the Trump economy is looking more and more like sour grapes. Yesterday’s CPI report, showing inflation at 2.7 percent — well below the expected 3.1 percent — was bad political news for Democrats. Since April’s “Deliverance Day,” when President Trump introduced tariffs designed to reset global trade in favor of American companies, … Read more
Revenue from President Trump’s tariffs fell in November, but the president’s oft-made promises about what he would do with the money continued apace. By Yahoo Finance’s count, the president has floated at least nine different ideas for how the tariff money could be used starting with the 2024 campaign. It’s a list of promises that … Read more
President Trump is hitting the road this week to address Americans’ accessibility concerns head-on. But it’s a journey that comes as his rhetoric and actions often appear at odds with each other. On the one hand, Trump and his team continue to push back against the prevailing sentiment among many Americans that everyday costs are … Read more
A renewed push by the Trump administration to resolve Russia’s war in Ukraine is rattling European governments who fear Washington is setting the stage for an ultimatum to Kiev on Moscow’s terms. The spate of diplomatic pledges has left Ukrainian and European diplomats alarmed that President Trump and his team have accepted Russia’s rationale for … Read more
The implications are vast and serious WaPo’s explosive holiday story — that, at the behest of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the U.S. military deliberately killed survivors of one of the Trump administration’s lawless high-seas raids on suspected drug traffickers — may have finally roused congressional Republicans to at least pantomime Article I lawmakers. From a … Read more