Notes in the Margin

Displaying 1 - 10 of 224

U.S.-led regime change in Venezuela would worsen the problems Trump promised to fix.

"the Committee decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point to 3-3/4 to 4 percent."

Milei's party won pluralities nationwide: “we will have 101 deputies instead of 37,” said Milei. “...in the Senate, we will go from 6 senators to 20."

Markets price in a near 97% probability of a 25-bp rate cut in Oct and a 94% probability of another 25-basis-point rate cut in Dec.

Trump's rule-by-decree protectionism continues as he insists Americans must pay more taxes to get Canadian goods and raw materials. 

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment will be 2.8% in 2026, the Social Security Administration said.

Napolitano: "The Trump administration has claimed that it can kill whomever it designates as an unlawful enemy combatant. The evidence is this: "trust me, bro."

One area would be controlled by Hamas and the other controlled by the Israeli military.

The rollback of U.S. meddling in "promoting democracy" is perhaps the most positive foreign-policy reform of the Trump presidency. Column by James Bovard.

The obsession with measuring aggregate GDP obscures how the real standard of living for many people has declined.