In some sense, falling interest rates meant that debt was becoming increasingly affordable. With all parts of the economy benefiting from the lower interest rates (except, perhaps, banks and others lending the funds, who are making less profit from the Read more…
In fact, as people face $100 tanks of gas and skyrocketing grocery prices, the Economic Optimism Index poll from IBD/TIPP plunged 9.5% in May, dropping to 41.2 – which, as Issues & Insights' editorial board notes, puts it firmly in Read more…
The Dinesh D'Souza film “2000 Mules” features government surveillance footage showing people stuffing drop boxes with multiple ballots in multiple locations in numerous states. In the email, he alleged that commissioners “are working so hard to confuse voters and make Read more…
Calls Emerge For China To Deploy Digital “Helicopter Money” Back in 2020, we sketched out the monetary endgame as follows: the Fed – along with all other central banks – was rushing to roll out a CBDC (digital dollar) so Read more…
The border crisis “clearly began” the time Biden took office in January 2021, according to Senate Minority Whip Sen. The Biden administration has said it is preparing for scenarios of up to 18,000 encounters per day when the order lifts. Read more…
For PE firms, the new scrutiny by regulators could arguably be coming at the worst time, as asset prices have started to plunge due to the Fed's new hawkish monetary policy stance. Jonathan Kanter, head of the DoJ's antitrust unit, Read more…
It's therefore no surprise that the State of Illinois is stonewalling the facts about its share of the problem so aggressively. Illinois' share of that loss to fraud is unknown because the state won't tell us, but it could easily Read more…
US Says Iran Deal “Far From Certain” After EU Scrambled To Save Nuclear Talks The Iran nuclear talks in Vienna have largely dropped from the news given they've been stalled for months, after delegations returned to their capitals. The Biden Read more…
During the debate, Democrats and Republicans clashed over the causes of record-high gasoline prices. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.) ran through a laundry list of Biden administration actions he said contributed to the rise in gas prices. As Armstrong noted, the Biden Read more…
Biden said in a written statement the US has already provided a “historic” amount of security assistance to Ukraine to date. He detailed what the new $100 million is expected to deliver: “…I am announcing another package of security assistance that Read more…