Tag: US News

ANALYSIS: The Fed Is Raising Rates, but What About the $8.3 Trillion Balance Sheet?

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…


Anheuser-Busch Under Fire From DeSantis For Potential Losses to Pension Fund

Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has asked officials to review Bud Light owner Anheuser-Busch, alleging that the company’s controversial actions, which led to a nationwide boycott, have resulted in potential losses to the state pension fund. In a July 20 letter (pdf), written to the head of Florida’s State Board of Administration (SBA), Mr. DeSantis…


Ramaswamy Unveils Plans to Eradicate FBI, Department of Education, Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy detailed his vision for the administrative state at a New Hampshire town hall on July 20. Mr. Ramaswamy appeared on stage at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics to the strains of Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town.” The music video for Mr. Aldean’s song was pulled…


California Science Center Starts Complex Process to Display Space Shuttle Endeavour Vertically

LOS ANGELES—A highly technical process began Thursday in Los Angeles to put NASA’s retired Space Shuttle Endeavour on permanent display in the vertical launch position complete with external tank and two solid rocket boosters. Workers used a crane to hoist the bottom segments of the boosters into the California Science Center’s future Samuel Oschin Air…


Former NY Post Editor Has To Laugh in Testimony on ‘Russian Disinfo’ Claims During Censorship of Hunter Biden Laptop Story

During a House Committee hearing on Thursday, Breitbart politics editor and former New York Post editor Emma-Jo Morris talked about the censorship she experienced in 2020 after publishing the initial story on the Hunter Biden laptop at the Post. She said “I can’t even say that with a straight face!” when giving her testimony about…


Former NY Post Editor Laughs While Recalling ‘Russian Disinfo’ Reasoning Behind Censorship of Bombshell Hunter Laptop Story

During a House Committee hearing on Thursday, Breitbart politics editor and former New York Post editor Emma-Jo Morris talked about the censorship she experienced in 2020 after publishing the initial story on the Hunter Biden laptop at the Post. She said “I can’t even say that with a straight face!” when giving her testimony about…


Federal Agency Investigating Why Delta Passengers Forced to Sit on Tarmac in Extreme Heat

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg confirmed the Department of Transportation (DOT) is now investigating why Delta Air Lines passengers remained on a plane in high heat with no air conditioning at a Las Vegas airport earlier this week. “The reports are shocking and we are investigating, I want to know how it was possible for passengers to…


IN-DEPTH: ‘Bidenomics’ Spends Up to $7 million to Create Each $50,000 ‘Green’ Job, Study Finds

Despite the claims of Bidenomics acolytes that it will “rebuild the middle class,” a new study states that the hundreds of billions in federal subsidies for electric vehicle (EV) production are wasteful corporate giveaways, to the tune of up to $7 million per job created. “Taxpayers are going to forego tens of billions of dollars…


Sharpening the Air Force’s Cyber and Spectrum Edge—A Hudson Institute Event

Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs Lt. Gen. Richard G. Moore Jr. and Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Cyber Effects Operations, Lt. Gen. Leah G. Lauderback of the U.S. Air Force, discussed the U.S. Air Force’s plans to improve its cyberspace and spectrum superiority with Hudson Institute Senior Fellows…


REPLAY: Sharpening the Air Force’s Cyber and Spectrum Edge—A Hudson Institute Event

Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs Lt. Gen. Richard G. Moore Jr. and Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Cyber Effects Operations, Lt. Gen. Leah G. Lauderback of the U.S. Air Force, discussed the U.S. Air Force’s plans to improve its cyberspace and spectrum superiority with Hudson Institute Senior Fellows…