2025-12-13 00:46:59
The American people got some reassuring monetary policy news on Thursday: The Federal Reserve Board of Governors unanimously voted to reappoint 11 of the 12 regional bank presidents to five-year terms. The vote eliminates a key threat to Fed independence and shows that the central bank will prove very hard to corrupt — no matter the White House’s desire for greater executive influence.
2025-12-13 00:00:22
An old conflict pits Bangkok against Phnom Penh.
2025-12-12 20:00:13
The dueling suitors for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. have had a rough week. Will this rule out an auction? Don’t count on it.
2025-12-12 19:30:24
Few college football programs are more prestigious or influential than the University of Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish. So when the team, fresh off a College Football Playoff snub, opted out of a bowl game, many saw it as confirmation that the bowl system is a relic of the past and beneath teams with championship aspirations.
2025-12-12 19:00:23
We don’t need to wait for the year to end to know that Latin America and the Caribbean likely grew 2.4% in 2025 — the same 2.4% it posted in 2024. And in 2023. It’s also the average pace the region clocked between 2007 and 2016. But don’t drift off just yet: 2026 is expected to finally break the trend with growth slowing ever so slightly to… 2.3%.
2025-12-12 19:00:22
Briefing congressional leaders last week, a four-star admiral and Navy SEAL reportedly defended killing two survivors of a US strike on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean — on the face of it, a potential war crime. Congress should need no starker illustration of why it ought to rein in such attacks.
