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A Trillion Dollar Budget But Military Can't 'Afford' To Attack Mold On Bases? Authored by Stavroula Pabst via Responsible Statecraft, A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finds that the maintenance backlog for military installations has ballooned to more than $285 billion - leaving many facilities in disrepair, while risking readiness and service members' quality of life. This figure is a jump up from 2022, when the maintenance backlog was about $137 billion. But the backlog continues to grow, because the services only request about 80% of the funds they need for...

Fear Of The Second Wave Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, This time last year, it seemed like we were just about finished with the terrible inflation of the Biden years that had trimmed at least 25 percent from the purchasing power of the dollar. The hope has been for a year that the massive increases in money printing over the COVID years were finally done. As some put it, the snake had finally digested the golf ball. All along we’ve worried that the experience of the 1970s would repeat: three...