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Affordability is a big problem. Lower rates won’t solve it

The President’s proposal to cap credit card rates at a maximum of 10% over the next year has gotten a lot of attention in the midst of a national affordability crisis. It’s understandable. Rates are ...
New Republic

What If Both Sides in the Birth Rate Debate Are Wrong?

The Trump administration’s ideologues keep coming back to birth rates. The new National Security Strategy, released on Friday, declares that Europe is facing “the stark prospect of civilizational ...
Media Matters for America

Fox senior medical analyst says that part of the fertility rate “problem” in the country is fewer teen pregnancies

DANA PERINO (FOX HOST): Well, new data from the CDC shows the U.S. fertility rate reached another record low last year, only 53.1 births per 1000 women aged 15-44. So that continues a nearly two ...
24/7 Wall St

Fed Rate Cuts Are Back, But the Social Security COLA Is Still the Real Problem

Social Security’s 2.8% COLA for 2026 may not keep pace with inflation if tariffs drive costs higher. COLAs are based on worker spending patterns rather than retiree spending, leading to insufficient ...
The Conversation

The problem with pronatalism: Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi scheme

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world’s major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Moreover, birth rates are notoriously hard to change, and efforts to do so often ...