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February 9, 2023

Emily Brontë—The Tin Box

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As inflation and high interest rates battered the housing market at the end of the 1970s, workers and suppliers mailed two-by-four offcuts to the White House to dramatize the industry’s distress. The wooden “letters” called for measures such as restoring tax-free savings interest and renewing the Brooke-Cranston program, a federal initiative that authorized the government to purchase home loans at below-market interest rates.

POTUS’s History Lessons

Peter Adams, The New Republic

As inflation and high interest rates battered the housing market at the end of the 1970s, workers and suppliers mailed two-by-four offcuts to the White House to dramatize the industry’s distress. The wooden “letters” called for measures such as restoring tax-free savings interest and renewing the Brooke-Cranston program, a federal initiative that authorized the government to purchase home loans at below-market interest rates.

Peter Adams, The New Republic

POTUS’s History Lessons

A photograph a gas station in Alhambra, California, in late September showing gasoline at $6.39 a gallon and diesel at $8.29

Trump’s Energy Council Is a Massive Sham

A photograph a gas station in Alhambra, California, in late September showing gasoline at $6.39 a gallon and diesel at $8.29

Trump’s Energy Council Is a Massive Sham