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Robert Kirsch, an assistant professor at Arizona State University and the co-author of Be Prepared: Doomsday Prepping in the ...

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Trump is threatening the independence of the Fed. That’s dangerous. The Federal Reserve arguably saved the US from a ...

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The Catholic Church has a new pope, and for the first time, he is an American.

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