Sitemap - 2025 - The Pinpoint Press, with Rick Newman
What matters today: War on Venezuela
10 things that will matter in 2026
What mattered this week: GDP rips, CBS trips, more Epstein tales from the crypt
18 things that mattered in 2025
The Pinpoint Quiz: What the heck happened in 2025?
What mattered this week: Epic sadness, dodgy data, Trump affordability bender
A drop in inflation won’t solve the affordability problem
It’s not just affordability. Trump has a jobs problem, too
3 Trump disasters that didn’t happen in 2025
What mattered this week: The marvelous Trump economy, fading AI trade , a Venezuelan trophy
The Trump stock market is good, not great
Trump sees an A+++++ economy. Millions of Americans see C-
Why low gas prices aren’t cheering anybody up
What mattered this week: ChatIOU, Netflix onslaught, Costco tariff rebates
We’ve drastically overpoliticized cars
Rick on the Michael Medved show: Will you be broke for Christmas?
The other affordability problem: Incomes are flatlining
Trump sleeps through meetings (haiku version)
Latest Obamacare fight: The short guide
What mattered this week: A weird shooting in DC, AI bubble alive, DOGE dead
Elon Musk’s “DOGE” produced no efficiency at all
Rick on CNN: Black Friday and holiday shopping
Happy Thanksgiving (haiku version)
Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns: The Short Guide
How's the Trump economy doing?
Feeling worse off? The data says you’re right
Trump meets Mamdani (haiku version)
What mattered this week: AI blahs, Full Epstein, Ukraine capitulation plan
A step-by-step guide to the AI bubble
You’re not imagining it, the job market is weakening
Trump approves release of Epstein files (haiku version)
Trump discovers the affordability crisis (haiku version)
Here’s the scheme behind Trump’s $2,000 tariff rebate
Introducing The Pinpoint Press (haiku version)
Introducing The Pinpoint Press ~ sensible analysis for sensible people
Trump-Epstein saga: The Short Guide
What mattered this week: Dead penny, resuscitated government, unkillable Epstein
Trump is way behind the affordability curve
Rick on CNN: Trump and food prices
Apple, Nike and other big companies could get billion-dollar tariff refunds
Trump knew all about Epstein (haiku version)
Rick on CNN: State of the stock market
Trump is tripping over the K-shaped economy
The shutdown showed why everybody hates Congress (and the media)
Elon Musk may never get that $1 trillion from Tesla
Sorry, you’re not getting a $2,000 check from Trump
Tesla grants Elon Musk $1 trillion pay package (haiku version)
What mattered this week: Stocks slide, tariffs teeter, Dems rise, Musk soar$
The job news stinks, even without the official government numbers
Trump won the affordability war in 2024. Here’s why he’s losing it now
The real lesson of the 2025 elections: No geezers!
Let Mamdani give free buses and government food stores a try
What Mamdani and Trump have in common
Stock owners are better off under Trump. Most others are not
What mattered this week ~ Shutdown pain, hawkish Fed, Trump blinks
Why Trump’s trade wars seem to be going in circles
Layoffs are suddenly making the "vibecession" seem like the real thing
Trump’s trade war has jumped the shark
Trump’s tariffs aren’t the inflation story. Something else is
Inflation creeps back up (haiku version)
Whoa! Trump just stood up to Putin
Trump bulldozes half the White House (haiku version)
Trump now wants your taxpayer dollar$ for himself
The government shuts down (haiku version)
Trump announces Middle East peace (haiku version)
Stocks hit record highs (haiku version)
Trump sends troops to cities (haiku version)
Give Mamdani a chance. NYC will survive his “communism”
Is Trump starting a war with Venezuela? Handicapping the possibilities
Here’s what the delayed inflation report probably shows
Fed Chair Jerome Powell is getting a bit Trumpier
Trump really needs a hot stock market
Trump is chickening out faster
The Puppy Bowl gets some competition
Democrats think they’re winning. That means a longer government shutdown
Rick in the media: Medved show, weak economy, strong stocks
Why Trump is warming to Obamacare
The jobs report we didn’t get yet is probably lousy
Polls will now determine when the government shutdown ends
There’s one thing to know about the infuriating government shutdown
Investors have a backup plan if a shutdown torpedoes jobs and inflation data
Trump should worry about Putin, not Portland
You. Cannot. Escape. The. Trump. Tariffs.
The Trump-Kimmel feud has scary implications for the Federal Reserve
In backing Jimmy Kimmel, Disney stands up to Trump
Why stocks are soaring while the economy slows
Eggflation is over. Now it’s coffee, bananas and beef
Without tariffs, Trump would be a low-inflation president
The Fed rate cut won’t help most people
Where Trump really chickens out? Russia
What Trump should do instead of canceling quarterly reporting
TrumpWeek 32: The data stinks, but at least it’s still real
Trump’s inflation problem goes well beyond tariffs
If you’re betting on the Bessent-Pulte smackdown, pick Bessent
Rick in the media: Medved show, tariffs
Why Trump is deporting those Korean workers
Job growth under Trump is the weakest since the Great Recession
3 numbers that will tell you where the Trump economy is heading