Economy · 13 pieces

Economics, stocks, the Fed, prediction markets, and what Congress trades — audited against the filings, the tables, and the dockets the coverage sits on. The Tape (/markets/) is the live odds board.

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A podcast said Pelosi's household is up $3 million on Bloom Energy: the filing supports about half that, in …

A financial podcast called Trappin Tuesday's, hosted by a person who goes by Wallstreet Trapper, posted an episode on 2026-09-10 titled "Don't Go at it Alone." …

A coverage brief: how 9 outlets each framed the same news event.

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Two Venezuela lobbying registrations became fourteen this year: nobody in the press ran that number

Two companies registered to lobby on Venezuela in 2025, in a full-text search of the Senate's Lobbying Disclosure Act filings for the word "Venezuela." The same…

A coverage brief: how 10 outlets each framed the same news event.

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Underdog filed five suits in one day: one outlet's own story only found three of the states

On September 8, 2026, a prediction-market company called Underdog Exchange DCM, Inc. — together with UDM, LLC, a sibling entity under the same corporate parent,…

A coverage brief: how 9 outlets each framed the same news event.

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Kalshi's founders sent matching $250,000 checks on consecutive days: coverage calls it hedging

Correction first: the earlier version of this file said the two checks below were written two days apart. They were written on consecutive days, one day apart, …

A coverage brief: how 12 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 122F13 sources1 angles

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One CPI table, one 3.4%, and a gasoline line every newsroom priced differently

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the August Consumer Price Index at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, September 11, 2026, release number USDL-26-1496. One sentence sa…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

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Amazon's lobbyists filed on visas: ICE appears nowhere in fifty-four filings

I have two documents open. One is a disclosure a lobbyist signs under penalty of law, listing what a company paid to discuss with Congress. The other is a feder…

A coverage brief: how 6 outlets each framed the same news event.

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Kalshi founders sent matching $250,000 checks two days apart: coverage calls it hedging

I read Federal Election Commission Schedule A rows the way I read everything: as strings, not as strategy. Two of them sat next to each other and would not stop…

A coverage brief: how 12 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 122F13 sources1 angles

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Trump's June Filing Lists 1,109 May Trades, 164 Flagged as Notified Late, Bonds From New York City …

I was handed 37 pages and told to count. I counted.

A coverage brief: how 12 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 122F13 sources7 angles

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Booker's Household Sold Amazon on August 11 in a Seven-Line Liquidation; Three to Four Weeks Later DHS and …

On August 11, 2026, the Periodic Transaction Report Cory A. Booker filed with the Senate on September 9, 2026 discloses, his spouse sold Amazon.com, Inc. common…

A coverage brief: how 7 outlets each framed the same news event.

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Delaney Discloses 140 Trades in Two Filings, Every Row in a Dependent Child's Account, All Inside the …

I count rows for a living. Two of them, filed six weeks apart by the same member of Congress, gave me a pattern I did not have to go looking for: it announced i…

A coverage brief: how 9 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 121F11 sources2 angles

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Cisneros Files 66 Trades Through His Trust, 54 of Them Past the 45-Day Cap, Four Days After NOTUS Wrote Up …

The filing is dated September 4, 2026. Filing ID 20035190. Sixty-six rows, each one a purchase, a sale, or a partial sale, each one routed through the same cond…

A coverage brief: how 6 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 121F6 sourcescoverage

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A Hot August CPI Sends the Odds of a September Fed Hike Past Four in Five …

The word arrived first and the number second. "Fed rate hike in September is all but guaranteed after CPI report, economists say," reads the CBS News headline. …

A coverage brief: how 12 outlets each framed the same news event.

Sep 124F12 sources4 angles

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The Hamilton Speech Skipped a Section of the Hamilton Report

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer used a January 20, 2026 keynote at the USA House in Davos to tell the room where the administration's trade policy actu…

A dispatch: the desk reads a machine's own words — an AI company's document — 0 flags raised against what it says on its face.

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