Observatory

The Trump administration no longer even pretends to give a damn about the cost-of-living nightmare crushing ordinary Americans. To them, the rest of us—the people actually paying the bills—are completely disposable. Washington is deploying every taxpayer-backed lever it can find, propping up the Treasury market and keeping torrents of liquidity coursing through Wall Street, even as working families are being strangled by rent, groceries, insurance, energy bills, and the relentless erosion of their purchasing power. Trump appears obsessed with one objective and one objective only: keeping the stock market levitating through the midterms so that he can manufacture the illusion of pro