Stocks Fall, Gold Rises; Real Estate Still Best Investment Megan Brenan, Gallup Americans appear to be following economic news — including tariffs and market swings — and adjusting their perceptions of investment risk accordingly. Real estate continues to be named the best long-term investment, while stocks have fallen amid recent market volatility and gold has picked up much of that decline. Meanwhile, stock ownership is holding steady, even as fewer say stocks are the best investment.
Trump, asked if he has to 'uphold the Constitution,' says, 'I don't know' Amanda Terkel and Lawrence Hurley, NBC News What It Takes to Win—or Lose—in a Meeting With Trump Josh Dawsey, Maggie Severns and Lindsay Elli, Wall Street Journal [unlocked] The Trump family is taking crypto payoffs in the middle of Fifth Avenue. Who will stop them? Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer [unlocked] The Destruction of the Department of Justice Paul Rosenzweig (Red Branch Consulting), The Atlantic [unlocked] These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful Damon Linker (University of Pennsylvania), New York Times [unlocked] A New Trend in Global Elections: The Anti-Trump Bump Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times [unlocked] The American Government Sides with the Party of German Neo-Nazis Thomas Zimmer, Democracy Americana The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada Stephen Marche, The Atlantic [unlocked] Trump Plans 100% Levy on Foreign Films, Deepening Trade War Akayla Gardner, Thomas Buckley, and Christopher Palmeri, Bloomberg Tariffs and Retaliation: A Brief Macroeconomic Analysis Stéphane Auray, Michael B. Devereux & Aurélien Eyquem, National Bureau of Economic Research House Democrats Are Having a Public Fight About Their Oldest Lawmakers Xavier Martinez and Siobhan Hughes, Wall Street Journal [unlocked] Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez: A billionaire and a former bartender emerge as Trump resistance leaders Bill Barrow, Associated Press What Has Happened to the American Dream? Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times Saved by Medicaid: New Evidence on Health Insurance and Mortality from the Universe of Low-Income Adults Angela Wyse & Bruce D. Meyer, National Bureau of Economic Research
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