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$1,599 is the median U.S. asking rent in January, down 0.1% from a year earlier, according to Redfin.

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Total Estimated Cost of German driving license: €1,500–€3,000.

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Many economists have argued that China could better rev up its economy by easing controls on its private sector, strengthening the country as it competes with the U.S., without many of the downsides of its state-led model.
Bad news. Rather than emerging out of a government lab, DeepSeek was built by a Chinese math geek who had founded a hedge fund.

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Strassel has an informative article on the endless Trump litigation and the administration's response.

"The Donald Trump “resistance” is alive and well, though this time it’s centering nearly all its efforts on the legal system. Just three weeks into this administration, nonprofits and coalitions of Democratic state attorneys general have already filed nearly 60 lawsuits in federal court. Don’t think this litigation is ad hoc. Activists and attorneys general have been meeting since Trump won the nomination, debating his likely moves, hiring lawyers, strategizing legal responses and coordinating who would lead cases and where.

One result is that this resistance is on track to dwarf even the legal assault on Trump’s first term—which was itself unprecedented in size and scope. Just one stat: State attorneys general filed 160 multistate lawsuits against the federal government in Trump’s first term, compared with 80 over Barack Obama’s entire tenure."

These cases all have complex elements but it appears in her article that the administration is better prepared for the legal harassment.