Stuck in Another Disastrous Middle East War

Vance Suggests Iran Conflict Could Drag Through Midterms, But At Least We're Not Calling It A War The White House has returned to its prior talking point that the war against Iran shouldn't be called a war. In earlier stages of the conflict President Trump had applied various monikers that stopped far short, from an "excursion" to a "little detour" to a "stopover" to a mere limited "military operation". A full five months ago he had proclaimed, "We had to take a little detour. Won’t be long." Various phrases like this have been repeated on...

Why Americans Soured On Higher Education Authored by Viktor Joecks via The Epoch Times, Even colleges can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Just 38 percent of Americans have high confidence in higher education, according to a new Gallup poll. That’s down from 57 percent in 2015. Gallup found the three main reasons for this lack of confidence are political agenda, cost and not preparing students for a future career. This is a stunning—and much-needed—fall from grace. Many schools and politicians spent decades pushing ever more kids into college. Sen. Bernie...

FICO Crashes Most Since 2004 As Pulte's Mortgage Score Shakeup Threatens Its Moat Fair Isaac, the company that produces FICO scores, saw its shares crash the most in 22 years early Tuesday in cash trading after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte announced on X that a mortgage-pricing change that Wall Street analysts say could accelerate adoption of rival VantageScore and undermine FICO's moat.  "We are Simplifying Mortgage Pricing following feedback from lenders and consumers. Instead of two separate pricing grids, which makes zero sense, Fannie and Freddie are hereby...