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International Reading: Oil Prices Are So Bad That Trump Considers Lifting Sanctions on Iran – New Republic Trump drives national debt to a staggering $39 trillion nearly double first term – The Mirror $39 trillion national debt is “an embarrassing milestone,” think tank says.

International reading: Trump rushed into Iran crisis meeting as insider warns ‘strike within hours’ – Daily Mail The Fed just casually dropped $18.5 billion into the banking system this week.

International Reading: How Europe outsmarted US tariffs without escalating the conflict.

International Reading: Survey: 43% of Americans Don’t Have Savings to Pay for a $1,000 Emergency – US News Employers announce most job cuts since 2009 as economy wobbles – USA Today Warren to call for reversal of Trump’s UAE chip sales after ‘Spy Sheikh’ revelations – CNBC Trump is giving the U.S.

International Reading: ‘The American People Deserve It’: Democrats Reveal Their 3 Demands to Avoid a Shutdown.

International Reading: EU Freezes U.S.

International Reading: Gen Z would rather cut Social Security benefits for current retirees than pay higher taxes to save the program – Market Watch Trump says tariffs have brought in $18 trillion.

International Reading: Trump Hit With His Worst-Ever Approval Rating on the Economy – Daily Beast Trump Moves to End a Major Student Loan Forgiveness Program – Time U.S.

International Reading: Top Economist Warns Trump Tariffs Effectively Impose Tax Rate On Low-Income Households That Is Triple Of High-Income Ones – Bezinga ‘China was playing chess while the rest of us were playing checkers’: Bombshell study finds $200 billion of secret loans to U.S.

By Lucinda Jerogin, Associate Economist at CBA The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.5% in September.

International Reading: Thousands of people are cancelling their Disney, Hulu, and ESPN subscriptions!

International Reading: Las Vegas mayor says the city is suffering from a serious drop in Canadian tourists: ‘We need you, and we miss you’ – Fortune Hundreds of scared Arkansas farmers gathered to ask Trump for help — and plead with President to show ‘fruit’ of his love.