Federal Reserve Headquarters Office Building in Washington, DC. Despite extraordinary monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve, inflation remains elevated above its 2 percent target. Even more worrying, inflation accelerated during the first quarter. The

Alexandre De Moraes, president of the Superior Electoral Court and a justice of the Supreme Court (STF) in Brazil. Elon Musk is publicly defending freedom of speech in Brazil and claiming that orders

Mark Carney in Davos, 2010. CC BY-SA 2.0 The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework allows a small group of corporate executives, financiers, government officials, and other elites, the ESG “puppeteers,” to force everyone

A stock certificate of the United States Steel Company, dated 1924. Japanese steelmaker Nippon agreed in December 2023 to acquire US Steel at a 40 percent premium to its stock price. It’s no surprise

Military boots and camouflage trousers of many soldiers in uniform. Recently during the cocktail hour before a large dinner party, I listened to an intense young woman make the case for the United States

We prefer the term “righteous indignation” to “hatred” because we know that it is very hard to pour hatred on sin without splashing any on the sinner. Yet hatred is the right response

Kearney Country Food Administrator and Price Fixing Committee, Minden, Nebraska, 1918. US Archive. I am grateful to Paul Kupiec for reviewing my book, Shock Values, here at the Daily Economy yesterday. Kupiec describes my

Socially engaged shoe retailer TOMS maintains a storefront in Venice Beach, California. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been widely embraced within academic business programming since the early 2000s. The trendy appeal of Bono’s Buy