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Abolish the FCC

Let the invisible hand regulate the invisible resource.

Reason

Analysts say there has been one other post-election stock rally similar to Trump’s - it was in 1928

Both the Dow and S&P closed at ‘record highs’ on Friday following Trump’s re-election

The Independent UK

All the presidents Jimmy Carter’s life has overlapped with as he turns 100

The first president Jimmy Carter was alive for, William Taft, signed New Mexico into Statehood in 1912

The Independent UK

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Kamala Harris is riding another wave of support following her debate with Donald Trump

Political commentators and flash polls are close to unanimous in declaring Vice President Kamala Harris the victor in her first presidential debate against Donald Trump.

The Conversation

Trump warns of 1929-style crash if Harris wins – just as Fox News ticker shows stock market at near-record high

Republican presidential nominee warns of coming financial disaster but is directly contradicted by Fox News’s showing of on-screen data

The Independent UK

To win the White House Kamala Harris must first overcome the ‘California curse’

Within the next fortnight, subject to a virtual “roll-call of Democratic Party delegates”, vice president Kamala Harris will be confirmed as the presumptive Democrat candidate for the US presidency and will engage in a full-on battle for the White House with the Republican candidate, Donald Trump.

The Conversation

The markets hate political violence, but a top historian says presidential assassinations are ‘endemic’ to American culture

If the attempted Trump assassination spells the beginning of a long period of political violence markets could become unstable.

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Trump's big con is a flop

Trump's only legislative accomplishment was a massive tax cut for the rich — and the results are now in

Salon

‘One existential threat’: In shift, Biden gives Trump a tongue-lashing - Roll Call

After not saying Donald Trump's name for years, President Biden has pivoted to calling out his likely general election foe much more often.

Roll Call

A History of Taxpayer Revolts

Linda Upham-Bornstein's "Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender" delivers an evenhanded view of American tax resistance movements.

Reason

Biden comparing Trump to Herbert Hoover a ‘cheap shot’, descendant says

Margaret Hoover takes issue with president and rival for using predecessor who battled Great Depression as example of failure

The Guardian - US

MAGA is right (sort of)

Just not the way they believe

Salon

Biden to Make Economic Pitch in Crucial Pennsylvania Battleground State

President Biden travels to Pennsylvania to make his economic pitch, highlighting his lead over Trump in polls. He responds to Trump's wish for an economic ...

Top News

Biden knocks Trump by comparing him to Herbert Hoover in new campaign video

President was responding to a viral clip of his predecessor from earlier this week

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Fortune

Trump says he doesn't "want to be Herbert Hoover" and says he hopes economy crashes in next 12 months

Former president made the comments on network owned by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell.

Salon

Trump wants economy to crash — this year

He wants Americans to "lose their jobs. He wants them to lose their savings," says MSNBC host Joe Scarborough

The Independent UK

Trump says he hopes the US economy crashes this year for his own benefit

Republican insists Joe Biden’s success amounts to ‘running off the fumes of what we did’

Reason

That Time Archie Bunker Endorsed Ted Kennedy

Friday A/V Club: He wasn't really the character created by the late Norman Lear. But the advertisers did all they could to obscure that.

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The Independent UK

Biden unveils new nickname for Trump

‘There are only two presidents in American history with fewer jobs the day they left office than when they started,’ Biden says

The Independent UK

Trump is notably absent from historic and urgent call to protect democracy by 13 former presidents

The former president did not join a call to action by presidential centres from Hoover to Obama

The Independent UK

Presidential centers issue joint statement calling out the fragile state of US democracy

Concern for U.S. democracy has prompted the entities supporting 13 presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover to call for a recommitment to the country’s bedrock principles, including the rule of law and respecting diverse beliefs

The Independent UK

Biden trolls ‘the last guy’ Trump over jobs, China and pensions in Labor Day speech

‘When the last guy was here, he looked at the world from Park Avenue. I look at it from Scranton, Pennsylvania. I look at it from Claymont, Delaware,’ the president says in the City of Brotherly Love

The Guardian - US

A national bullying of the poor: the trouble with America’s bootstrapping myth

Centuries of American thought support a hypocritical ideology that can be difficult to escape even when we want to

Fortune

Silicon Valley Bank might have just blown up a banking regulation that was put in place at the depths of the Great Depression

Why deposit insurance matters: Without it, America's press secretary had to put his money under a mattress in the 1930s.

Tribune News Service

7 facts to know about Lake Mead

LAS VEGAS — Among the sunken ships and undiscovered bodies at Lake Mead lies a boatload of rich history at one of the West's most popular outdoor attractions. Lake Mead National Recreation Area is America’s first and largest recreation area, offering swimming, boating, hiking, cycling, camping and fishing.

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