2026-04-25 01:15:45
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has finally done the right thing and dropped its unjustified inquiry into the Federal Reserve’s building-renovation cost overruns — an investigation that was clearly meant to pressure Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues into lowering interest rates. With that threat ending, Powell can leave the central bank and make way for incoming chair Kevin Warsh.
2026-04-24 23:00:18
As the quality and quantity of human workers shrink, cyborg nursing may be coming for all of us.
2026-04-24 20:00:20
Warsh needed to be asked about the Treasury takeover of monetary policy.
2026-04-24 20:00:18
The European Union, which was born in 1993 and sired by the Maastricht Treaty, was a child of neoliberalism: the doctrine of market supremacy and government restraint that swept the world from the 1980s onward. Globalization and the single market provided the EU with a growth engine; the single currency and the EU regulatory authorities drove integration; and an extensive system of contracting out sustained the EU’s sense that it was a special place, at the forefront of progress. Provided the Ch
2026-04-24 19:30:18
Good marketing can be edgy or cheeky — even provocative. It should have a point of view and be memorable.
2026-04-24 19:00:20
Budget airlines are going broke. Spirit Airlines may go under or get a government bailout, and JetBlue is just barely avoiding bankruptcy this year. It didn’t need to be this way. They tried to merge in 2024, but the merger was blocked because President Joe Biden’s administration was concerned that greater consolidation would lead to higher prices.
