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January 19, 2026

Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds - WSJ

By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, the Kiel Institute researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.

Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence

In our benchmark scenario, we find that under-reported income rises from about 10% of true income in the bottom 90% of the income distribution to 16% at the 99th percentile of income, where it remains constant or falls

Very few Americans want the U.S. to seize Greenland or pay its residents to secede | YouGov
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Only 8% of Americans support the U.S. using military force to take control of Greenland.

Only 13% of Americans support paying Greenland residents to encourage secession from Denmark.

Rich people are a threat for democracy, Oxfam finds
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Total billionaire wealth in the EU reached €2.4 trillion by late November, exceeding Italy's entire GDP of €2.2 trillion and approaching France's €2.9 trillion economy, a new Oxfam report found.