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These Are The States With The Most Empty Homes
These Are The States With The Most Empty Homes
America faces a housing shortage, yet about 14.5 million homes across the country are vacant. How can both be true?
Using the latest U.S. Census Bureau data compiled by LendingTree, Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld created this map showing the share of vacant housing units in every state.
The figures include vacation homes, rentals awaiting tenants, homes for sale, and other unoccupied properties, not just abandoned buildings.
Which States Have the Highest Vacancy Rates?
About one in 10 U.S. housing units is vacant, but most are not...
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Israeli Defense Chief Lashes Out At Trump Policy For Preventing Destruction Of Hezbollah
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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz in a talk before reporters Monday ripped the Trump administration, blaming the US for giving into Iran's demands that a peace framework incorporate the Lebanon front.
Trump "exerted pressure" on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu within several telephone calls "in the run-up to the signing of the memorandum of understanding" - and ultimately prevented Israel from disarming and destroying Hezbollah, he asserted.
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A Golden Opportunity Just Appeared
A Golden Opportunity Just Appeared
Authored by Matt Badiali via DailyReckoning.com,
The headlines are screaming that gold is falling.
And it’s true. The price dipped below $4,000 per ounce for the first time since November 2025.
This seems backward. There are multiple wars going on in the world. Fuel prices are high. Gold is supposed to be the “safe haven” asset. Why isn’t it going up?
Well, as analysts from LPL Financial, the largest broker-dealer in the U.S. said, gold is doing what it’s supposed to do. It’s acting as financial insurance.
Analysts at giant...
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May 29, 2026 / Joshua Mawhorter
“Creating a Nation”: The Declaration of Independence and the Nation Anachronism
Viewing the Declaration of Independence as the act that created one consolidated American nation is a common historical anachronism, which projects a later nationalist understanding backward onto the founding era.
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