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Hawkish FOMC Minutes Show All 19 Fed Officials Supported Rate Hike, "Most" Assess Another Hike "By Year End Is Appropriate" The September FOMC minutes struck a distinctly hawkish tone, as all 19 Fed officials backed a rate hike in September, with many supporting the move to protect against the risk of intensifying inflation pressures. A separate group of officials said higher rates were necessary based on their outlook for the economy, signaling greater concern for elevated inflation, according to minutes of the Sept. 16 FOMC meeting released Wednesday. The Committee unanimously raised...

Why 'Big Pharma' Will Never Make A Cheap Anti-Aging Drug Authored by Ross Pomeroy via RealClearScience, For years, scientists have hypothesized that safe, cheap, generic drugs like metformin and rapamycin could slow aging, based on promising findings in animal models. But despite the evidenced hope, little has been done to see if these drugs actually slow aging in humans. There have been no rigorous clinical trials exploring whether metformin or rapamycin prolong life and and boost health. How is it possible that metformin and rapamycin, long used to respectively treat diabetes and...

DOGE Alumni Launch AI Startup To Target Waste On Main Street - And Already Have Their First Target Two alumni of the Department of Government Efficiency are bringing their cost-cutting experience from Washington to the private sector, launching Special, a startup that aims to harness artificial intelligence to wring inefficiencies out of what it describes as America's $10 trillion Main Street services economy. Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox spent much of 2025 at DOGE, where they spearheaded the Small Agencies team. Their government stint, under the high-profile effort led by SpaceX...