Finance

Finance

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February 12th, 2025
The Tyranny of the Penny
Few things symbolize our national dysfunction as much as this accursed coin, which we mint by the millions because it’s too worthless to spend.
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February 11th, 2025
Defending USAID is Political Suicide?
Once again, the party shows it has learned nothing from November 5.
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February 10th, 2025
Trump Tariffs
Hysteria has erupted here and abroad over President Donald Trump’s threats to level trade tariffs against particular countries. Both American and foreign critics blasted them variously as either counterproductive and suicidal or unfair, imperialistic, and xenophobic. Certainly, tariffs are widely hated by doctrinaire economists. They complain that tariffs burden consumers with higher prices to protect weak domestic industries that, shielded...
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February 7th, 2025
DOGE to the Rescue?
The Department of Government Efficiency has started making moves. The D.C. media are furious about his attempts to cut government agencies. But I take Elon Musk’s side…
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February 7th, 2025
Federal Debt
The Congressional Budget Office projects the federal deficit will continue to rise, reaching $2.7 trillion by 2035, due to legislation passed by Joe Biden and Democrats. The new para-government age…
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February 7th, 2025
Trump, Trade and Tariffs
President Trump’s obsession with the U.S. trade deficit is misplaced, as trade balances don’t matter and tariffs are a tax increase on U.S. businesses, which could lead to higher prices…
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February 4th, 2025
Canada, Mexico, and Tariffs
President Donald Trump has agreed to delay the imposition of sweeping tariffs on neighboring Mexico and Canada by one month after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to send troops to protect their borders with the United States.
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February 3rd, 2025
Mexico
Mexican nationals, likely cartel members, recently crossed the border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume that Joe Biden was still president, and so it was still a veritable open season on Americans without consequences?
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January 31st, 2025
The Fed and Trump
President Trump ripped the Federal Reserve and the man he appointed to lead it Wednesday after the central bank kept interest rates steady. In a post on Truth Social, the president accused the Fed …
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January 29th, 2025
Trump’s Davos Comments Reignite Debanking Controversy
President Donald Trump accused leading U.S. banks of debanking conservative clients over their political views, a claim that financial institutions have pushed back on.
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