DOJ Let a Donor-Backed Media Megamerger Slide. That Is Not Antitrust, That Is Access.
United States – February 20, 2026 – DOJ let Paramount Skydance’s $108.4B WBD bid clear a key review clock, and the donor class smelled blood.
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EPA Just Yanked the ‘Endangerment Finding’ and the Swamp Started Choking on Its Own Fumes
United States – February 20, 2026 – EPA says it finalized rescission of the 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding and repealed vehicle greenhouse gas standards that relied on…
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EPA Just Took a Sledgehammer to the Climate Case File
United States – February 20, 2026 – The EPA just tried to un-write climate reality, so polluters can invoice the public for the smoke.
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Mortgage Rates Dip, and Wall Street Still Wins the Housing War
United States – February 20, 2026 – Mortgage rates slid to 6.01%, but prices, supply, and investor games keep housing unaffordable for most people.
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Roundup, War Powers, and the Fine Print That Bites
United States – February 20, 2026 – Washington stamped glyphosate as ‘national defense’ and tucked industry immunity into the margins.
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Supreme Court Told Trump: Tariffs Need a Congressional Wrench, Not an Emergency Crowbar
United States – February 20, 2026 – The Supreme Court clipped Trump’s emergency tariffs under IEEPA, reminded everyone tariffs are taxes Congress controls, and left the refund q…
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The Antitrust Clock Ran Out. The Questions Did Not.
United States – February 20, 2026 – A merger review ended in silence, and silence is how regulators train the public not to believe them anymore.
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A Texas Judge Just Handed Merger-Barons a Paper Shredder
United States – February 20, 2026 – A federal court kneecapped the FTC’s tougher merger paperwork, and Wall Street heard one word: hurry.
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The Supreme Court just unplugged Trump’s emergency-tariff grift. Watch the lobbyists scramble.
United States – February 20, 2026 – The Court finally yanked the fake-emergency lever on tariffs, and now the refund circus begins in boardroom glass.
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PCE Inflation Pops Hotter, and the Fed Still Wants You to Clap
United States – February 20, 2026 – BEA says PCE inflation jumped again, and the Fed keeps your paycheck on simmer while prices sizzle on high.
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