Prinz Magtulis
Finance + data + design @graphics.reuters.com . Ex-FT. 🏳️🌈
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- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisThey're cooked.
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisAmerican approval of President Trump's immigration policy fell to its lowest level since his return to the White House in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, with a majority of Americans saying his crackdown on immigration has gone too far reut.rs/4k2SJgC
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisBREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisWell, this is really something. A majority of *working class whites* disapprove of ICE, per new NYT poll. Dovetails with the unpublished data that I got from Quinnipiac finding similar on working class more broadly (see below). (cc @gelliottmorris.com )
- Quinnipiac gave me unpublished data from new poll and it finds huge, huge, huge percentages of young and working class voters have seen video of Minneapolis shooting. Majorities of both disapprove of ICE. Pundits are getting the working class/immigration wrong: newrepublic.com/article/2052...
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisVery late to this but here we go! A collection of our visual and graphics storytelling from 2025. Enjoy 💞
- A 2024 study considers the U.S. Federal Reserve more independent than Bank of England, but less so compared with European Central Bank. The data is from the central bank independence index that measures six dimensions, including independence by CB governors.
- Federal prosecutors have sent opened a criminal investigation on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, a move that has been sharply criticized by lawmakers and other central bankers.
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisThe U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
- U.S. President Donald Trump said he will take steps to ban large institutional investors from owning single-family homes to address affordability. However, data show that as of the second quarter of 2025, 87% of investor-held single-family homes were owned by small investors with 1-5 properties.
- Premium tax credit under the Affordable Care Act, used to offset some healthcare costs, is set to expire by Jan. 1, 2026 without a potential extension or replacement. The expiration, in turn, would push up healthcare premiums for Americans.
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- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisNew York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he wants undocumented immigrants to push back against improper law enforcement, urging residents to refuse entry, remain silent and legally record agents during an encounter.
- Reposted by Prinz Magtulis“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
- US President Donald Trump has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, adding to his growing list of pardons on just the first year of his second term. Data show Trump has pardoned 70 people as of Dec. 1, more than his recent predecessors on the same period of their term.
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisPrivate insurance won't cover houses in areas increasingly prone to natural disasters like wildfires or hurricanes, so they're covered under insurance plans of last resort, known as FAIR plans. Read how the insurance fix is becoming a problem ➡️ reut.rs/44ldWvs
- US states have set up insurers of last resort in disaster-prone areas which private insurance has avoided. Amid more frequent disasters, these insurers are experiencing record signups. The financial burden is becoming a problem. Visual explainer with Soumya Karwa. www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
- Canada lost the elimination status of measles in the country after cases soared to their highest since 1991 this year, government data show. Before this, measles has been declared eliminated in the country since 1998, which meant that there was no continuous transmission of the disease.
- Come Nov. 1, over 40 million Americans will lose food aid benefits called SNAP due to lapse of government funding and the ongoing shutdown. In fiscal year 2024, over one in five people living in Washington, D.C. and New Mexico received SNAP benefits, the highest across states.
- "The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized 'on paper' gains."
- Report by Tom Bergin, Tom Wilson, Lawrence Delevingne, Michelle Conlin, David Villars. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
- Hear me out though: they're not really "debates." I also think it's interesting that the story didn't touch on something I think makes this show format effective: it's not just the conflict, but also the "underdog effect" on one person going up against a mass. Makes you root for that one person.
- From NYT Business: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/b...
- The current U.S. federal government shutdown is now the second longest in history with no end in sight as Senate Republicans and Democrats remain in a standoff over healthcare.
- "A recently updated Fed staff model...found that overall financial conditions are boosting - not restraining - economic growth by about a percentage point a year, with the Fed's policy rate contributing slightly to the lift." Chart for this story by Howard Schneider. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
- Throwback to 2020 in the Philippines where allies of then president Rodrigo Duterte at House of Representatives denied the country's largest broadcaster, ABS-CBN, a franchise, triggering a broadcast shutdown. Prior to that, Duterte had criticized ABS's reporting of him. www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/m...
- Over 11,000 people reportedly lost jobs after the shutdown. ABS-CBN had since transitioned toward content creation and online streaming, but has not regained profitability to date.
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisThis is the first time we estimate he has a negative approval rating among Texas voters: www.economist.com/interactive/...
- Big downward revisions in previous months' records, too.
- Reuters is tracking how global companies are responding to the threat posed by US President Donald Trump's tariffs.
- Only about one in four Americans say Israeli military actions in Gaza are fully justified, poll says.
- The U.S. Senate has approved President Donald Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion in previously appropriated funds to programs such as aid and support to public broadcasting. The bill goes back to the House of Representatives after the Senate chose to save about $400M in HIV/AIDS relief.
- Nvidia, the most valuable public company in the world, is inching closer to $4 trillion market capitalization. It's now bigger than the entire UK economy.
- Mamdani gains on Cuomo with just two weeks until the New York City mayoral Dem primaries.
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisJan 6 police heroes argue Trump and his top aides are peddling in “hypocrisy” by decrying “Insurrection” in Los Angeles
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisThe U.S. State Department directed all U.S. missions abroad and consular sections to resume processing Harvard University student and exchange visitor visas after a federal judge in Boston last week temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's ban on foreign students at the Ivy-League institution.
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisGlobal investor pushback against long-term government debt is turning what normally would be a routine US bond auction into one of the most anticipated events on Wall Street this week.
- US facilitated the return of a Guatemalan it deported. In another case, the US Supreme Court in April ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US from El Salvador. Garcia is still in El Salvador.
- JUST IN: Guatemalan deportee arrives in US after judge orders Trump to facilitate return reut.rs/4kxYoL8
- Spain betting big on immigrants.
- NEW: Spain is the only European country openly talking about the need for more migrants to boost economic growth and the falling birth rate. And it's a human rights issue too, officials say. FREE link via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
- US economy shrinks.
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisJudge blocks Trump administration from revoking Harvard enrollment of foreign students reut.rs/4dzoOJF
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisThe private plane that the U.S. government used to deport eight migrants to Djibouti/South Sudan (unclear what the final destination is) was previously used in the Brittney Griner/Viktor Bout prisoner swap. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisBREAKING: 50 of the 240 Venezuelan men that President Trump deported to the CECOT megaprison have been identified as legal residents.
- The U.S. just lost its last top notch credit rating from a major debt watcher after Moody's downgraded the country by a notch. Moody's was the last major credit rater to grade the U.S. triple-A before the downgrade. The U.S. is now rated Aa1.
- Among OECD nations, U.S.'s credit ratings from Fitch, Moody's and S&P now lags behind Germany and Australia among others.
- Tesla car sales have plummeted in the first quarter in some major economies as a booming electric vehicle (EV) sector and protests to Elon Musk hit the company.
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisJUST IN: Federal judge orders the “immediate” release of Tufts University student, Rumeysa Ozturk, from detention. “The main evidence against her appears to be an essay critical of Israel that she helped to write in a Tufts student newspaper last year.” An essay. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
- NEW: Beyond the numbers, U.S. President Donald Trump's executive orders have departed from long-standing precedents in terms of scale and scope, a Reuters analysis found.
- How Trump unleashed executive power reut.rs/44ZOvRb
- The US just reported that its economy shrank in the first quarter on the day Trump marked his 100th day back at the Oval Office.
- This is the first of three estimates of GDP. Numbers are typically revised up or down over the coming months as more data becomes available.
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisAnother pretty big move down in Trump's net approval today. He hits a new low (again) of -6.7 after pulling in net negative numbers from even his most friendly pollsters. Disapprove: 51.6% Approve: 44.9% www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisNEW: An Associated Press reporter was allowed into a White House event today for the first time since the Trump administration banned the outlet www.axios.com/2025/04/15/a...
- China retaliated against the US's tariffs anew, raising its own duties on all imported goods from the US to 125%. The U.S. tariff rate currently stands at 145%. It marked the latest escalation on the two world superpowers' trade war since US President Donald Trump slapped Beijing with tariffs.
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- The races in the first and sixth congressional districts were largely expected to favor the Republicans and increase their slim majority at the Lower House. However, the narrow victories also signaled Democrats gaining ground in districts won by Donald Trump in 2024.
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- What happens after tariffs? 📈📊 Past US experience offers some clues on how import duties impact prices and trade as President Donald Trump threatens to slap more tariffs. www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
- As President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union, his approval ratings are starting to suffer, while his favorite indicator-- the stock market-- has plummeted in the face of his tariffs and trade war. Is his honeymoon over?
- On his first month back at the White House, US President Donald Trump has signed the most number of executive orders than any president since at least 1945.
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisNEW: $88 billion/year could erase ALL medical debt for 40 million Americans. Instead, Trump wants to spend it on his nightmarish, family-splitting mass deportation plans. IPS scholar Alliyah Lusuegro of @nationalpriorities.bsky.social:
- I'm not sure why this wasn't clear to them on the first ruling.
- Order blocking Musk's DOGE from Treasury systems doesn't apply to Bessent, judge says reut.rs/4gB0XZN
- President Donald Trump paused on Tuesday the enforcement of an anti-bribery law of foreign officials, saying it harms dealmaking by US firms abroad. On the same day, Transparency International released a new report that showed the US, along with other OECD countries, perceived to be more corrupt.
- The Trump administration has pledged to reduce the size of government, including by cutting spending. Federal spending accounts for over a fifth of US GDP.
- US President Donald Trump is set to sign the most number of executive orders in his first 100 days in office than any president since Franklin Roosevelt.
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisAustralia has banned DeepSeek from all government devices over concerns that the Chinese artificial intelligence startup poses security risks, the government said reut.rs/4hLJ5wx
- USAID, the US government's development agency, is the world's largest.
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisBREAKING: 2 federal employee unions, AFGE & SEIU, file suit seeking to block DOGE access to Treasury Department payment database. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Prinz MagtulisAny news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...
- US President Donald Trump has paused his 25% tariff against Mexico for a month after a call with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. Mexico is one of the US's top trading partners. Mexico, for instance, supplies over 90% of US avocados, USDA data show.
- In the U.S., immigration is also a big driver of population growth, according to nonpartisan CBO. Without migration, the US population will begin to shrink by 2033.
- U.S. universities warned international students after Donald Trump won last November. But data shows that, despite the harsh immigrant rhetoric, foreign students were largely left alone in Trump's first presidency. Immigration experts believe there's an economic reason for it.
- US President Donald Trump has quickly used his executive powers on his first week in office, signing 39 executive orders, with more expected to come. To compare, former president Joe Biden signed 42 executive orders in his first 100 days.
