ANALYSIS – I have argued that one of the biggest collateral benefits of Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has been to unify and strengthen NATO, not only against Russia but also against Putin’s greatest ally, Communist China, led by Xi Jinping. While individual NATO countries were taking an increasingly hard line against China since […]
The New York Times is reporting that former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe were subjected to invasive IRS audits that the tax agency says are random. President Trump wanted both men prosecuted, leading Comey and others to speculate that the exceedingly rare audits were political payback. The New York Times further […]
The Louisiana Supreme Court has rejected state Attorney General Jeff Landry’s petition to allow the immediate enforcement of a state law banning almost all abortions. The majority said the high court would not get involved “at this preliminary stage.” Landry tweeted afterward: Last week, an Orleans parish judge blocked the enforcement of Lousiana’s “trigger law,” […]
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Farmers and fishermen across Holland have angrily protested the Dutch government’s new environmental rules as the debate surrounding them has intensified. Officials at the Hague recently unveiled their goals to mandate drastic nitrogen emission reductions of up to 70% in many places. And as high as 95% in others. The government says the measures are […]
Despite Shortcomings, Markets Show Insight Politicians Lack
Leave it to markets to do what political poseurs can’t. The most recent example: crude oil, which has gone in a very short span of time from an unstoppable bull market that threatened to tank the global economy to a potentially grinding bear market that just might reverse prices at the pump: Rising fears of […]