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Inside the $1.8 Million Townhouse Raising Eyebrows on Capitol Hill
The Morning Sixpack Podcast - 09/18/2026: BOJ hikes rates, gas prices surge, and federal officials face ethics and criminal cases…
3 hrs ago
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Bill Davis
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Gas Prices Are Exploding Toward $5 as Saudi Pipeline Damage Threatens Weeks of Pain
The Morning Sixpack - 09/18/2026: BOJ hikes rates, gas prices race past $5, DHS's Mullin ethics probe, ICE agent charged, data centers eye public land…
4 hrs ago
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Bill Davis
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Massie Erupts as Johnson Sends House Home Early Over Epstein, Hegseth Fights
The Morning Sixpack Podcast - 09/17/2026: Congress bolts, Russia bites, Canada-EU talks, Iran pressure, bomb hold, Flock blurs. #MorningSixpackPodcast
Sep 17
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Bill Davis
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21:39
Congress Just Handed Trump a 100% Tariff Weapon Against Russia's Oil Buyers
The Morning Sixpack - 09/17/2026: Congress bolts, Russia bites, Canada courts EU, China leans on Iran, Meeks holds bombs, Flock blurs. #MorningSixpack
Sep 17
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Bill Davis
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Massie's Parting Shot: Impeachment Articles Filed Against Hegseth
The Morning Sixpack Podcast - 09/16/2026: Fed rate hike, Massie’s impeachment bid, a free-speech court win, J.B. Hunt’s slide, Canada-EU talks, and…
Sep 16
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Bill Davis
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Fed Expected to Raise Rates for the First Time Since 2023
The Morning Sixpack - 09/16/2026: Fed rate hike, Massie moves to impeach Hegseth, a judge protects an ICE critic, J.B. Hunt sinks, Canada eyes EU ties…
Sep 16
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Bill Davis
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13:43
How Tech's Boom Bust Pushed Billionaires Toward Trump
The Morning Sixpack Podcast - 09/15/2026: SCOTUS halts mail votes, Iran war toll, a Red Sea grab, a deadly opioid, tech’s Trump turn…
Sep 15
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Bill Davis
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Houthis Seize Global Oil Chokepoint as Yemen's Lightning Offensive Rattles the Region
The Morning Sixpack - 09/15/2026: SCOTUS halts mail votes, Iran war toll, Houthis grab a Red Sea port, a deadly opioid, tech's Trump pivot…
Sep 15
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Bill Davis
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22:14
Fed Set to Raise Rates for the First Time Under Warsh Amid Inflation Surge
The Morning Sixpack Podcast - 09/14/2026: Oil shock, a Fed hike looms, Kennedy Center’s crisis, Trump on Ireland, NSA overhaul, AI risk…
Sep 14
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Bill Davis
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Trump’s Venezuela Oil Deal Has a Bank Account Problem — And That’s Kind of the Point
The real power in Trump’s Venezuela oil strategy may not be the crude itself, but the U.S.-controlled accounts deciding where the money goes.
Sep 8
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Bill Davis
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Adelanto—The ICE Detention Center the Government Says It Doesn’t Control
Inside Adelanto, a private company runs the detention center, ICE fills the beds, and federal judges say the government still owns the responsibility…
Aug 24
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Bill Davis
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Follow the Money: Taylor Farms - The Lettuce, the Lobbyists, and the $3.6 Million Question
Taylor Farms is at the center of a major foodborne-illness outbreak. Its political spending is raising a second set of questions—about access…
Jul 30
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Bill Davis
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The Dollar Is Not Dying. The World Is Learning How to Trade Around It.
The Rise of a Fragmented Global Currency System—and the New Financial Rails Being Built Around the Dollar
Jun 24
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Bill Davis
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The Strait of Hormuz Shock Is Bigger Than Oil
How a chokepoint in the Persian Gulf is strangling supply chains from fuel and fertilizer to plastics, clothing, chips, and medical technology
May 6
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Bill Davis
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The Petrodollar Myth — Why War Won’t Kill the Dollar (But Might Change It Forever)
The Petrodollar was a deal. Deals expire.
Mar 25
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Bill Davis
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How Ratings Agencies and Derivatives Turned a Mortgage Problem into a Financial Inferno
This is part 2: How the "derivatives" market shrunk overnight and made the mortgage meltdown even worse. The rating agencies did us no favors, either.
Jan 28
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Bill Davis
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MORTGAGE MELTDOWN: What Really Caused the 2008 Financial Crisis
(Hint: It Wasn’t Just “Bad Mortgages”)
Jan 26
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Bill Davis
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Taiwan’s AI Export Boom Masks Growing Global Economic Risk
Taiwan’s AI-fueled export party is raging, but it’s being hosted on the world’s most expensive geopolitical fault line.
Jan 10
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Bill Davis
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US Economy 2026: Good, Bad, and Ugly
A Goldilocks economy: Not too hot, not too cold. But is it just right?
Jan 9
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Bill Davis
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