An IQ test for President Trump
"If he did that, I guess we'll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win." — President Donald Trump, in Forbes magazine, on...
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It’s not just Trump. ‘Reasonable’ Republicans are betraying us too.
President Donald Trump clearly has no clue what's happening on health care, taxes or really any other major policy front. He has also made abundantly clear that he has no...
The Democrats have become socialists
When Bernie Sanders launched his bid for the Democratic nomination, he was often asked whether he, a democratic socialist, would actually become a Democrat. Now, more than a year after...
How to protect yourself against lasting damage from Equifax theft
The catastrophic theft of 143 million consumers' personal data from national credit bureau Equifax could cause financial grief for years for homebuyers and mortgage applicants. The odds are that some...
Wells Fargo accused of unwarranted ‘rate lock’ fees
Wells Fargo & Co., the controversy-battered big bank, has a new problem — this time directly affecting mortgage applicants. Last week a first-time homebuyer filed a lawsuit against the company,...
Nobody knows what Donald Trump is doing. Not even himself.
House Speaker Paul Ryan could not have been more clear. After meeting with his Republican caucus Wednesday morning on the first day back from their long summer break, he declared...
How Ivanka Trump makes money off faux-feminism
Ivanka Trump is for working women the way her father is for the working class: In both cases, the Trumps really just want their money. President Donald Trump's daughter built...
The middle class is feeling pretty cocky these days
On this Labor Day, the American middle class is a survivor. Indeed, it's expanding. That's not the conclusion of some arcane scholarly study. It's the judgment of Americans themselves, though...
Appraisal-free home sales cut costs, but may come with risks
Would you welcome the option to buy a house but not have to pay hundreds of dollars for an appraisal? Are you kidding? Sign me up, you might say. Who...
Can Trump control the wave of racism he has released?
Lyndon Johnson, deciding whether to fire FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, famously reasoned that "it's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing...