Month: March 2020

Federal Reserve Building in Washington, D.C. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Suspend the payroll tax. The Federal Reserve might still have to cut interest rates to zero. Brian Riedl has a nice piece in this publication articulating the case against fiscal stimulus. It provides a solid rundown of what I think are the strongest contemporary arguments that tax
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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally in St Louis, Mo., March 9, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) on Wednesday announced he is staying in the presidential race, in his first public remarks since losing the majority of Mini Tuesday primaries to former Vice President Joe Biden. “On Sunday, I very much
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Chelsea Manning outside the U.S. federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., March 8, 2019 (Ford Fischer/News2Share/Reuters) A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of Chelsea Manning, who leaked classified military information to Wikileaks. Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst, was jailed last year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Wikileaks founder Julian
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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Cory Booker speaks to news media in the spin room after the conclusion of the fifth 2020 campaign debate at the Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., November 20, 2019. (REUTERS/Christopher Aluka Berry) Unlike Joe Biden, Booker offered moderate bona fides in a lucid, presentable package. But he tacked hard
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Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Today the Fed announced a $1.5 trillion liquidity provision to the interbank lending market — primarily in the form of “repurchase agreements.” The interbank lending market comprises the federal-funds market (in which the Fed actively participates on a daily basis) and the repurchase-agreement (or “repo”) market (in which
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A man walks past an advertisement for the Democratic National Convention at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C September 2, 2012. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) The Democratic National Committee announced on Thursday it would move the upcoming presidential primary debate from Phoenix, Ariz., to Washington, D.C., due to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. “Out of an
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Former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke endorses former vice president Joe Biden at a campaign event at Gilley’s in Dallas, Texas, U.S., March 2, 2020. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) As Democratic presidential front runner Joe Biden gears up for the general election in November, his campaign has decided to hire former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke’s campaign manager.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a community event at Sun City MacDonald Ranch in Henderson, Nev., February 14, 2020. (Gage Skidmore) Former vice president Joe Biden accused the White House of a “colossal” misstep over a lack of available coronavirus testing, and urged that the country dramatically increase its screening capacity. “The administration’s
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The Gulf of Mexico, outside Martha B. Apgar’s place, in North Redington Beach, Fla. (Jay Nordlinger) A personal tribute to a great woman Years ago, in print, I described her as “a daughter of Florida, America, and God.” True. She loved all three. And she was one of the best friends you could ever have.
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Betty Gilpin in The Hunt (Universal Pictures) The Hunt’s gallery of condescending liberals and ignorant rednecks is pretty much guaranteed to irritate everyone. ‘The Most Dangerous Game” gets the InfoWars treatment in The Hunt, a horror-satire that was postponed from its fall release date after a trailer, which showed Davos elites hunting “Deplorables” for blood
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Impeachment witness Fiona Hill admits Democrats propagate Russian disinformation when calling Trump ‘illegitimate;’ Fox News contributor Dan Bongino weighs in on ‘Fox & Friends.’ #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also
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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally in Chicago, Ill., March 7, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) By reworking his rhetoric to appeal to a different constituency, he ended up losing more than he gained Bernie Sanders’s 16-point loss to Joe Biden in the Michigan primary came almost four years to the day after Sanders’s stunning upset
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