https://fortune.com/article/trump-tariffs-inflation-approval-rating-lowest-of-presidency/

Trump’s handling of tariffs and inflation nosedives his economic approval rating to the rock bottom of his entire presidential career

#us #economist #economy #stagflation #recession #inflation #trumpflation #trump #tariffs #usa #consumer #retail #spending #tax #business #trade #taxes #stagflationary #tariffs #imports #exports #labor #markets #tradewars #global #finance #money #economic #ratings #maga #coup #junta #authoritarian #kakistocracy #fascism #fascist #gop #gqp #uspol #upolitics #gov #usgov #treasury #rates #lending #finance #mortgage #housing #jobs #employment #unempoyment #layoffs

Courts say the feds can't grep the entire phone system. Which will stop them from doing so for exactly zero minutes.

https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-blanket-search-of-cell-tower-data-unconstitutional/

#mobile #usgov

https://thedailyrecord.com/2025/04/16/md-federal-contractor-layoffs-increase-as-trump-slashes-federal-spending/

#us #taxes #labor #workforce #jobs #layoffs #employment #unemployment #economy #economics #finance #markets #stocks #equities #treasury #banking #lending #consumer #spending #inflation #recession #stagflation #trumpflation #trump #tariffs #kakistocracy #trumpnomics #maga #usaid #doge #usgov #gov #uspol #uspolitics #politics #markets #stocks #equities #employed #unemployed #contractor #layoff #federal #spending #MD #maryland

Whistleblower Blames Musk’s DOGE Goons for ‘Significant Cybersecurity Breach’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/whistleblower-blames-musks-doge-goons-for-significant-cybersecurity-breach/

#technology #tech #security #privacy #cybersecurity #datasecurity #databreach #dataprivacy #usgovernment #usgov #surveillance

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mortgage-applications-dropped-last-week-as-rates-shot-up-110025619.html

Mortgage applications dropped last week as rates shot up

Tariff turbulence is beginning to show up in housing data.

#us #homebuyers #usa #mortgage #rates #mortgages #housing #homes #trump #tariffs #american #family #tax #spending #business #taxes #tariff #trade #mba #bankers #loans #lenders #originators #fha #heloc #families #shelter #americandream #refinancing #refinance #GSEs #treasury #yields #bonds #treasurybonds #interest #finance #financing #economy #economics #uspol #politics #usgov #gov #government

“…according to the disclosure and records of internal communications,
members of the #DOGE team asked that their ACTIVITIES NOT BE LOGGED on the
system and then APPEARED TO TRY TO COVER THEIR TRACKS behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access — EVASIVE BEHAVIOR that several cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR compared to what criminal or state-sponsored hackers might do.”

#USA #trump #USGov #musk

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

Notice he does not address the issue of due process. Rather, he says that the US has plenty of prisons and can even build more. And if those aren’t enough, they can send people somewhere else (where of course, the US would run the prisons ;)

#USA #USGov #trump #law #DueProcess #deportation #deportations

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