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MacroBusiness Friday, November 21, 2025 - 00:05 Source

A new proposal has been pitched in the United States to address the country’s housing crisis. The Trump administration is working to introduce 50-year mortgage terms for homebuyers. Instead of the standard 30-year fixed mortgage, payments would be spread across 50 years. President Trump has framed it as a continuation of the American Dream, likening

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Your Democracy Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 21:30 Source

 

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Cheeseburger Gothic Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 17:15 Source

The house was gloriously quiet and still today, allowing me to get back to World War 3.3. As I expected, I wasn’t able to spin up from nothing to seven hours of two-fisted manuscript punching. But I managed four hours of concentrated work, and I’m gonna take that as a win.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 17:00 Source

Action in Japanese bond markets dominate risk taking across Asia with stock markets having mixed sessions after Wall Street stabilised overnight, with Japanese shares launching higher. The USD pulled back against most of the undollars after a big surge overnight on the release of the FOMC minutes which indicated the December rate cut may not

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Your Democracy Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 16:19 Source

Don Reynolds is a name forgotten to history, though he appears to hold a key to understanding who was behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

On November 22, 1963, the morning that Kennedy was killed, Reynolds was testifying in a closed-door session of the Senate Rules Committee about a kickback scheme he was involved in on behalf of Lyndon B. Johnson

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Your Democracy Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 14:11 Source

Two of the EU’s most powerful and controversial officials, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the bloc’s Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas, are struggling for control of the EU’s diplomacy and intelligence services in a confrontation “worthy of ‘Game of Thrones’,” the French newspaper Le Monde has reported, citing sources.

 

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