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October 7th, 2022
Venezuelan oil refinery
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – October 6, 2022 The madness of the Biden Administration’s energy policy has been horrifying to watch, like a car crash except all Americans are passengers. The latest bizarre twist is that the White House may ease sanctions on Venezuela and its dictator Nicolás Maduro in an effort to increase the supply of oil...
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September 27th, 2022
Tractor with sign-Be a Proud Farer
What?“We have to move away from the low-cost model of food production,” one member of the Dutch Parliament explained.
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September 16th, 2022
Evan Hafer brewing Black Rifle Coffee
Black Rifle Coffee seeks to help veterans, but finance and law firms deemed it a ‘reputational risk.’
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September 15th, 2022
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg
By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – September 14, 2022 I had my doubts that having Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg in the office back in October 2021 would have made much of a difference in the supply-chain crisis that bedeviled the country in the fall and winter. I contended that the more uncomfortable fact for the administration was that Buttigieg...
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September 14th, 2022
chinese worker holding lots of pills
By: Charles L. Hooper & David R. Henderson – wsj.com – September 13, 2022 Virtually no products are more valuable than the modern medicines produced by the biopharmaceutical industry. They cure diseases and extend lives. We’ve all heard that Americans pay higher drug prices than people in other countries. That’s true, but only when comparing retail prices of brand-name drugs. Very few Americans pay...
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September 9th, 2022
Melissa Klein Cupcake
7 years after Melissa Klein was forced to close her bakery amidst violent death threats—she is still searching for justice, still waiting for the courts to finally recognize her constitutional right to stand by her faith as she runs her business.
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September 2nd, 2022
popped balloon $$
Politicizing investment decisions was never a good idea—especially for public pensions.
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August 29th, 2022
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powel
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell warned that he expects the central bank to continue raising rates in a way that will cause “some pain” to the economy.
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August 29th, 2022
Texas Capitol US & TX flags
The move ends roughly six months of suspense that cost banks business as Texas municipal-bond issuers avoided firms whose status was unclear amid the probe.
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August 24th, 2022
By: Brian P. Brooks & Charles W. Calomiris – wsj.com – August 23, 2022 America’s $15 trillion national banking system is supervised by more than 2,000 examiners. Many work full-time on bank premises to ensure that risks to the financial system are caught early. The system isn’t perfect. It failed to prevent the 2008 financial crisis and other major problems over...
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