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Colonel Harwood’s Legacy: The Engineer Who Built an Economic Institution
In the aftermath of World War I, thousands of young officers were faced with limited prospects for advancement. In that inauspicious moment, then–Second Lieutenant Edward Crosby Harwood carved out opportunity and meaning for…
Deposit Insurance for Billionaires?
Politicians in Washington have the shortest memories. Maybe that's why they so seldom learn from their sometimes catastrophic mistakes. It was less than 20 years ago that the U.S. economy was flattened by the mortgage…
Poll: Nobody Is Benefiting From The Government Shutdown, Voters Just Want It To End
By Robert Romano 56 percent disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the Democrats’ government shutdown to extend expanded Obamacare tax credits they sunset and lifting prohibition on illegal aliens accessing public…
Slower Inflation But Rising Uncertainty in September
Inflation eased slightly in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported late last week, after a delay in the release due to the government shutdown. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.3 percent last month,…
Is subdued COP 30 a Trump effect?
The mainstream press run-up to COP 30 is the most subdued I have ever seen, and I have seen them all. No grand global plans or calls for astronomical sums of cash. Likely a Trump effect — but as a scientist with no hard…
How China Remade Global Trade — and Then Broke It
Globalization is perhaps best explained not with statistics, but with a pair of foods beloved in China. Consider Shenyang’s chicken racks and Wuhan’s duck necks — two dishes born directly from trade. In the 1990s, Liaoning’s…
Failing Upwards: The Perverse Incentives of Teachers’ Unions
Failure gets rewarded when it comes to government unions. Look no further than Stacy Davis Gates, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). She was just unanimously elected to lead the Illinois Federation of Teachers…
Tony Blair tells UK Labour Party to abandon Net Zero
The Telegraph All around the world, politicians are stepping back from Net Zero The Net Zero debacle has become such a deadweight for the UK Labour Party, that Tony Blair, Former Labour Prime Minister has dropped a second…
Trump admin planning to refill depleted petrol reserve Biden drained
The Department of Energy (DOE) is planning to purchase one million barrels of oil to help restock the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) after the Biden administration drained the reserve and once passed on replenishing…
Virginia and New Jersey Governor Races Tighten and GOP Takes Lead in Attorney General Race in Virginia
By Manzanita Miller The races for governor in Virginia and New Jersey are tightening as the Nov. 4 election approaches, as are lieutenant governor and attorney general races in Virginia according to the latest flurry of…
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