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Rick Newman
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Founder, The Pinpoint Press, www.thepinpointpress.com, now serving #ModerationNation. Author of Rebounders +3 others. Ikon pass. Heirloom tomatoes. Puzzles. Occasional haiku.
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Forget the finer points of the "dot plot"

Here's your short guide to today's Federal Reserve interest-rate cut

Just 3 things you need to know

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Fed rate cut: The short guide
3 things to know
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December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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An A+++++ economy? More like a C-

Here are 5 problems with the economy Trump is missing

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With charts by @dfostergraphics.bsky.social

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Trump sees an A+++++ economy. Millions of Americans see C-
Here are 5 big problems with the economy that Trump is missing.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Why is there a $12 billion farm bailout?

To fix the damage caused by Trump's tariffs

The evidence is everywhere: Tariffs are a bust

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The Trump tariffs go splat
The farm bailout is the latest sign Trump's import taxes are causing way more harm than good.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Why the lower gas and egg prices Trump brags about don't move the needle

The nice artwork is by @dfostergraphics.bsky.social

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December 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Trump is bragging about lower prices for gas and eggs

But that's only 3.3% of spending

What about everything else? Most of it is going up

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Why low gas prices aren’t cheering anybody up
Prices are down for things that constitute a small fraction of spending. Many other things are going up.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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What mattered this week

~ OpenAI audit

~ Costco tariff rebates $COST

~ Job warnings

And would you care if the Netflix purchase of Warner Brothers means fewer movies in theaters? $NFLX

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What mattered this week: ChatIOU, Netflix onslaught, Costco tariff rebates
Would you care if the Netflix purchase of Warner Brothers means fewer movies in theaters?
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December 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Obama raised gas-mileage requirements

Trump 1.0 lowered them

Biden raised them

Trump 2.0 lowered them

See the problem?

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We’ve drastically overpoliticized cars
Trump's new MPG directive is the fourth major change in 10 years.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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A few months ago, Trump and Bessent were bragging about rising real income

Well, that's over

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The other affordability problem: Incomes are flatlining
Workers are backsliding. Trump doesn't get it.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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BREAKING: Trump sleeps through meeting (haiku version)

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Trump sleeps through meetings (haiku version)
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December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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We're in the 13th presidential term since 1977

Try to guess how the Trump economy in 2025 ranks among them

Best? 😄

Worst? ☹️

The Pinpoint Press has the answers

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The Trump economy is subpar
Our exclusive rankings show that Trump's economic performance trails many of his predecessors.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Hard to believe, but Congress is still fighting over Obamacare 15 years after it first passed

Because Republicans backed themselves into an ideological trap

They still can't accept that voters want health care

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Latest Obamacare fight: The short guide
Health insurance costs could soon shoot up for 20 million Americans. Here's what's going on.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Most of the news from the last week didn't matter

These 5 things did

#DOGE #AI #ozone

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What mattered this week: A weird shooting in DC, AI bubble alive, DOGE dead
Investors now think another Federal Reserve interest rate cut is coming.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Holiday shopping outlook: Upbeat for the shareholder class, bleh for everybody else

As I discussed on CNN today
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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What did we learn from Elon Musk's "DOGE" commission?

Only that chainsaws are overrated

DOGE cut 100,000 government workers but federal spending is still up

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Elon Musk’s “DOGE” produced no efficiency at all
The "efficiency" commission cut thousands of federal jobs--and spending went up anyway.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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MAGA firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene is leaving Congress

Takeaways for ordinary people

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Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns: The Short Guide
Political pundits think it's a huge story that she's leaving Congress. Here's what matters for ordinary people.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The media fixates on Republicans and Democrats

But there are more Independents than either Rs or Ds

Here's why the sensible middle gets no love--but should

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More power to Independents!
Sensible moderates are more numerous than ever. They deserve way more political power.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Key political question: Are you better off or worse off than you were a year ago?

I created the Better-Off Barometer to answer it

Trump should be worried

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Feeling worse off? The data says you’re right
Our Better-Off Barometer is approaching the red zone. Hers's why.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Trump meets Mamdani (haiku version)

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Trump meets Mamdani (haiku version)
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November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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What mattered this week: #AI blahs, Full #Epstein, #Ukraine capitulation plan, #jobs return (weakly)

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What mattered this week: AI blahs, full Epstein, Ukraine capitulation plan
Plus, the jobs report is back, but actual jobs, not so much
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November 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Is there an artificial intelligence bubble? Is it bursting? Some top investors think so

It goes way deeper than #Nvidia $NVDA

Here's how to tell if there's an AI bubble, and what to do about it

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A step-by-step guide to the AI bubble
Is it bursting? Here's how to tell, and what to do about it
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November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Trump approves release of the Epstein files (haiku version)

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Trump approves release of Epstein files (haiku version)
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November 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Trump discovers the affordability crisis (haiku version)

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Trump discovers the affordability crisis (haiku version)
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November 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Looking forward to your $2,000 tariff rebate?

Sorry, but it’s not real

Here’s what Trump is scheming

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Here’s the scheme behind Trump’s $2,000 tariff rebate
He's planning to blame the Supreme Court for killing his planned payoff to taxpayers
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November 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Introducing The Pinpoint Press (haiku version)

(It’s my new publication)

Improve on my haiku or write your own!

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Introducing The Pinpoint Press (haiku version)
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November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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After I left Yahoo Finance two months ago, I started The Rick Report on Substack to experiment with self-publishing

The Rick Report is growing up

It’s now The Pinpoint Press ~ serving pragmatists, moderates and sensible people everywhere

Check it out ~

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Introducing The Pinpoint Press ~ sensible analysis for sensible people
Better media for a better America
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November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM