News Analysis All financial eyes will be on next week’s policy meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The futures market is penciling in a quarter-point increase to the benchmark federal funds rate. But while all the focus among economists, investors, and market analysts is on interest rates, what about the Federal Reserve’s massive…
ANALYSIS: The Fed Is Raising Rates, but What About the $8.3 Trillion Balance Sheet?
July 21, 2023
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The Fed Is Raising Rates, but What About the $8.3 Trillion Balance Sheet?
July 21, 2023
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All financial eyes will be on next week’s policy meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The futures market is penciling in a quarter-point increase to the benchmark federal funds rate. But while all the focus among economists, investors, and market analysts is on interest rates, what about the Federal Reserve’s massive balance sheet?…
Woe, the Humanity: How AI Fits Into Broadly Rising Anti-Humanism
News Analysis The future of humanity is becoming ever less human. The astounding capabilities of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence have triggered fears about the coming age of machines leaving little place for human creativity or employment. Even the architects of this brave new world are sounding the alarm. Sam Altman, chairman and CEO of…
Have You Made Your Peace With Free Trade?
Commentary In 1796, the first U.S. President George Washington gave an impassioned farewell address. It summed up what he hoped would be U.S. foreign policy as regards both economics and wars. “The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations,” he said, “is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them…
ANALYSIS: Seditious Conspiracy Likely Charge if Trump January 6 Grand Jury Investigation Reaches Indictment
News Analysis Upon President Donald Trump’s revealing a grand jury is investigating him in relation to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol protest and riot, seditious conspiracy emerges as the likely charge he will face. Mr. Trump said he was informed of being the target on Sunday night through a letter from the office of…
ANALYSIS: Trump Could Face ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Charge in Jan. 6 Probe, Previous Trials Suggest
News Analysis With former President Donald Trump saying that he’s been notified that a Washington-based grand jury is investigating him in relation to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol protest and breach, a commentator who’s been closely following Jan. 6-related trials is pointing to seditious conspiracy as a charge Mr. Trump likely will face. Mr. Trump…
What Does It Mean to Have a Soft Landing?
July 17, 2023
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Commentary Economic language is packed with metaphors. It would be sunk without them. The economy is overheating. It’s depressed. It’s recessed. It’s hot. It’s cooling. It hit the skids. It’s in free fall. We’d better put on the brakes! Housing is underwater. This stock is headed to the moon. Inflation is easing. The Fed is…
After Supreme Court Colorblind Ruling, the Slavery Reparations Fight Lives On as ‘Not Race-Based’
News Analysis The uncertain legality of paying reparations for slavery and its legacies came into focus two weeks ago when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected racial preferences in college admissions nationwide. But while some see the ruling as a major setback for the reparations movement, it isn’t likely to deter its advocates, who say that…
Why Are Republicans Greenhorns at Rounding Up Them Absentee Votes?
July 12, 2023
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News Analysis COSTA MESA, Calif.—“I can’t begin to understand what ballot harvesting is,” Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the former Republican House Speaker, said in an interview in the wake of a 2018 political upset in Orange County, California. Democrats had swept the congressional seats in one of California’s few Republican strongholds, largely due to a well-executed…
ANALYSIS: ‘I Hate When Politics Is Injected Into Science’: Text Messages of Top Scientists Shed Light on COVID Origin Response
News Analysis A new report released by Republican members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic includes new evidence that a group of scientists who received funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), conspired to dismiss the origin of the pandemic in order to protect China. The text messages…
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