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Single dad, finance and food nerd, writing for simple Personal Finance and Financial Independence. It’s actually very simple. More FILE than FIRE. Not retiring early.

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Atlanta forfeits $37.5M in airport funds after refusing to agree to Trump's DEI ban Atlanta’s airport has forfeited $37.5 million in federal grants after refusing to disavow diversity, equity, and inclusion programs

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29.09.2025 19:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Please repost this…. Thank you.

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Warren Buffett's Take on Active Traders: It's Like Calling One-Night Stands Romance — Investopedia Warren Buffett warns investors tempted by overactive trading that it's like casual hookups—exciting in the moment but destructive over time. Frequent trading can slash returns by 6% to 7% compared wit...

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Goldman Sachs resets bold S&P 500 target — TheStreet Goldman Sachs set a fresh bar for Wall Street to chase.

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A different way of saying that the “Wall Street Professionals” are usually wrong, and just do a reset. Trust Total Market Index Funds and walk away.

23.09.2025 08:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Sneakflation’: How Trump’s tariffs are gradually raising costs for American consumers — CNN When tariffs are tacked on to many imported goods, someone’s got to foot the bill.

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25.08.2025 00:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The punch line is depressing, but I love see people and their dogs. Dogs bring out the best in us.

18.08.2025 01:54 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It's not crime or jobs or whatever else the GOP says. It is about control. Join me writing Bally's Casino, one of Shreveport largest employers. The GOP is doing nothing about crime in their city while wasting their tax dollars to fight imaginary crime DC.

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17.08.2025 04:54 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Warren Buffett’s Bold Claim: Why Jack Bogle Changed Investing Forever — Investopedia Buffett has long been a big proponent of the index funds that Bogle helped bring to the masses. However, his public declaration that Bogle is an American hero may have also been influenced by the fact...

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18.08.2025 00:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Mayor Karen Bass arriving at MacArthur Park during an immigration raid.

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Mayor Karen Bass arriving at MacArthur Park during an immigration raid. AP photo

LA Mayor Karen Bass personally confronted federal agents during an immigration raid at MacArthur Park, demanding they leave.

"Frankly, it is outrageous and un-American that we have federally armed vehicles in our parks when nothing is going on in the parks," Bass said.

08.07.2025 02:11 — 👍 325    🔁 103    💬 8    📌 11
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Wonderful books for your financial independence

15.08.2025 02:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

LA Mayor Karen Bass did the right thing, so it's time for a heart felt thank you!

Mayor Karen Bass
200 N. Spring St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

08.07.2025 03:36 — 👍 1543    🔁 376    💬 57    📌 14
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Trump’s answer to numbers he doesn’t like: Change them or throw them away — The Washington Post From D.C. crime rates to census collection to labor statistics, the administration has suppressed inconvenient data and conjured inaccurate statistics to bolster policy objectives.

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15.08.2025 02:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Small US Firms Paying Trump Tariffs Face $202 Billion Annual Hit — Bloomberg Small US companies, the source of more than half of the country’s job creation in recent years, are struggling to comply with President Donald Trump’s new tariffs and cope with growing financial strai...

Champion of small businesses?

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11.08.2025 14:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Everything This Administration Has Done to Undermine Public Health A running list of actions by the Trump administration that are actively deepening inequality, dismantling public health systems, and making Americans less healthy.

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How Trump's loathing for wind turbines started with a Scottish court battle The US president is a vocal critic of wind energy - and it's a loathing which began in Aberdeenshire.

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01.08.2025 21:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Scottish Government Waited Exactly Two Days After Trump Left To Do Something So Hilariously Petty — BuzzFeed Oh, I'm expecting an epic 2 AM'er about this one.

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01.08.2025 20:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Dr. Oz responds after prominent physicians call for his firing from Columbia University Calling Dr. Mehmet Oz a "quack," the physicians said it is "unacceptable" for him to hold positions at Columbia's medical school.

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Physicians: Oz ‘lying to the American people’ through promotion of ‘quack cures’ The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate often used his media platforms to push questionable health products and views.

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31.07.2025 16:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Probably because he’s been coloring his hair all these years

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Mehmet Oz unqualified to run Medicare and Medicaid

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31.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dr. Oz, Tapped to Run Medicare, Has a Record of Promoting Health Misinformation

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31.07.2025 16:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How is this a financial post?

31.07.2025 15:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Why Firing Jerome Powell Could Destabilize the USD Photo courtesy of the Brookings Institution @ Flickr I thought the biggest economic news that would be coming out of the Trump administration this year was the trade war, but as usual, the Trump ad…

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Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' is projected to add $3.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says — NBC News The law will also

The party of financial responsibility? Bullshit.

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21.07.2025 20:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) blames "Trump's chaotic tariff policy" for high interest rates:
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/sen-elizabeth-warren-slams-trumps-151415416.html

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Trump cannot end union bargaining for federal workers, judge rules — Reuters A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Republican President Donald Trump's administration from eliminating union bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal workers at 21 agencies.

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