Gabriela Calderon de Burgos Today in the Wall Street Journal, economist Judy Shelton suggests that Latin American countries adopt the US dollar. She weighs…
Investing
-
-
Editor's PickInvesting
Manufacturing Employment Data Confirm the Concentrated Benefits—and Dispersed Costs—of Trump’s Tariffs
Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report offers a stark reminder that US manufacturing continues to…
-
Editor's PickInvesting
Brief Filed in Mohamud v. Weyker: State Officers on Federal Task Forces Should Not Be Immune from Accountability
Matthew Cavedon A local St. Paul, Minnesota, police officer, Heather Weyker, claimed to have uncovered a vast interstate sex trafficking conspiracy, which led…
-
Tad DeHaven The federal government is to become the customer, regulator, and partial owner of a defense contractor under a deal announced by…
-
Benjamin Giltner Many people remain stumped over President Trump’s continual insistence on acquiring Greenland. He most recently justified a takeover of the island…
-
Dominik Lett The interest on a typical 30-year mortgage costs $500 more per month than it did in 2019. Credit card rates have…
-
Editor's PickInvesting
The Inverted Pyramid of Authority—Why Government Nutrition Advice Deserves Less, Not More, Trust
Jeffrey A. Singer, Terence Kealey, and Bautista Vivanco Since the publication of three books — Gary Taubes’s Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), Michael Pollan’s In…
-
Colleen Hroncich When both of Amanda Lucas’s daughters were diagnosed with serious medical conditions within the same month, conventional school became impossible. They…
-
Jerome Famularo Last week, President Trump instructed his “representatives” to purchase roughly $200 billion in agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS). It appears to be…
-
Editor's PickInvesting
A Good Idea in Trump’s “Great Healthcare Plan”: Put More Drugs Over the Counter
Jeffrey A. Singer Today President Trump announced he will ask Congress to enact what he calls “The Great Healthcare Plan.” The proposal is…