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At this point it's probably own a house OR have a child, not both

Keith Conrad
May 7
 
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Americans are having fewer kids due to money concerns: LendingTree survey

That doesn’t seem surprising. The fact that 77% of parents said parenthood is more expensive than they thought isn’t doing a great job to sell it. $5000 isn’t going to solve that, either.

Never Make a Bad Choice Again by Embracing Self-Nudging

They say you can make better decisions by changing your environment. A lot of bad decisions could probably be avoided by moving your smart phone to another room


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Political commentator Matt Lewis joined John Howell to break down what he sees as a turning point in Donald Trump’s post-presidency: the new wave of tariffs that Lewis believes may be the former president’s political undoing

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John Dempsey

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Also Worth A Look…

  • A militarized conspiracy theorist group believes radars are ‘weather weapons’ and is trying to destroy them - I wonder where they’d be getting ideas like this…

  • Women are more attracted to BALD men, study reveals - The entire pharmaceutical industry is hardest hit

  • Runaway tortoise missing for 9 months found just one mile from home - Clearly they weren’t looking for that little guy very hard

  • Pete Hegseth Had at Least 12 Signal Chats for Pentagon Business - How did he even manage to keep 12 group chats straight?

  • Animatronic dinosaurs stolen from Thurrock hotel car park - What would you even do with a stolen animatronic dinosaur? It’s not like you could turn around and sell it

  • Police find ‘Chewy’ the raccoon with a meth pipe in its mouth, leads to drug bust - I’m sure police are constantly hearing “It’s the raccoon’s fault”

  • 16-year-old becomes youngest to receive Ph.D. in the US, university claims - Nobody likes a show off

  • Man arrested after sitting naked in St. Louis Airport terminal - What’s with the sudden intersection of nudity and air travel?

  • Britain preparing for an attack by Russia and updating ‘secret war plans’ - That’s less than ideal

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