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Waste Of The Day: Disaster In Small NM Village Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearWire, Topline: The Village of Cuba, New Mexico, has had "a sustained and indefensible breakdown in accountability over public funds" since at least 2020, according to a state audit released in May. The report identified dozens of issues, including a public official with $11,471 in unpaid water bills and another who used public funds to buy a Subaru Crosstrek without approval. Key facts: Auditors found the village never implemented proper processes to monitor its payroll, bank accounts, credit...

Colombian Bonds, Stocks Rise As Trump-Backed "El Tigre" Defeats Socialist Rival Summary: Colombian Bonds, Stocks Rise as Right-Wing, Trump-Backed Espriella Wins Vote Trump-Backed "El Tigre" Wins Colombia Presidency As Socialist Era Ends Colombian Assets Rise After Trump-Backed Candidate Wins Presidential Election  Colombian-dollar bonds surged across the curve on Monday, led by notes due in 2054, as traders bet that right-wing Abelardo de la Espriella's presidential win will cut taxes, reduce spending, crack down on crime, and reopen the oil industry to unleash an energy revolution. The streets of Bogotá have erupted in celebration after it...

The Unsustainable $40 Trillion National Debt Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, The national debt has now passed $40 trillion. It stands at 120 percent of GDP. That should alarm us and probably does but let's just be honest: no one can conceive of such figures. They are just floating zeros and no one has any sense of whether and to what extent this portends economic doom for us. Maybe it does or maybe it doesn't. An electronic display shows the national debt in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 19,...