A Paucity of Political Talent Joe Biden candidacy is starting to look like Donald Trump’s gateway, writes Holman E. Jenkins, Jr. in the WSJ. “To be clear, no one in President Biden’s White House would ever root for Donald J. Trump,” wrote the paper’s White House correspondent Peter Baker. “But as they watched Mr. Trump romp through […]
Archives for January 2024
Just When You Think You’re Diversified
What happens when everyone is invested in the same stuff? When you look at the S&P 500 and compare it to, say, target maturity funds or a total stock market index, there’s a ton of overlap. Just when investors think they’re diversifying, a simple look under the hood shows most engines running on the same […]
Is China’s Growth Engine Broken?
At Foreign Policy, Howard W. French discusses the changing sentiment among China analysts who now believe that the country’s growth engine may be broken. He writes: Herd sentiment among pundits and others who analyze the direction of Chinese affairs has always been subject to sudden shifts. In the late 1970s and early ’80s, China was […]
Will Biden Repeat His Failed Afghanistan Withdrawal in Syria?
In Foreign Policy, Charles Lister warns against a plan currently percolating in the Biden administration to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria. While the editors of these pages encourage pulling American forces out of more countries in the Middle East and elsewhere, doing so in the failed fashion Biden exhibited in Afghanistan would be an embarrassing […]
Could 2024 Bring Even More War?
The last two years have been filled with violent war and conflict. Foreign Policy explains that it could get even worse in 2024: Earlier this week, Foreign Policy featured 10 conflicts to watch in 2024. Here, we are focusing on those international disputes that have been flying under the radar but could emerge as full-blown conflicts in the […]
Meet Brazil’s “Buffalo Soldiers”
Samantha Pearson of The Wall Street Journal reports that police in Soure, Brazil, saddle up and patrol on horned buffalo, which have an unusually robust presence on the island. Pearson writes: Brazil’s military police already have a reputation as one of the toughest combat forces on the planet. But the battalion on Marajó Island at […]
Time to Get Your Lazy Money Working
When you look at my charts from yesterday, now is a good time to get your fixed-income house in order. After a certain point in an investor’s life, there’s a time to recognize that, “Self, I might not want to work forever. How am I going to make ends meet?” Believe Your Survival Guy when […]
Argentina Vindicates Libertarians on Rent Control
According to libertarian economic theory, the implementation of rent controls reduces the supply of housing and ultimately increases its costs. In Argentina, Javier Milei’s reforms are proving just that. Ryan Bourne of the Cato Institute explains: In his ascent to Argentina’s presidency, Javier Milei was distinguished not just by his libertarian ideology but also for […]
Turns Out, Robots Need Human Help
The robot takeover isn’t going as smoothly as planned. It turns out that sometimes robots need guidance just like humans. Not everything can be automated, yet anyway. Liz Young explains in The Wall Street Journal: Caroline Rutenberg got an alert one day that one of her charges needed help at the Amazon.com warehouse where she works […]
Turkey Gets Its Pound of Flesh for Sweden’s NATO Approval
After much wrangling, Turkey has secured everything it could from its agreement to Sweden’s accession to NATO membership. In Foreign Policy, Reuben Silverman discusses Turkey’s long history of transactional behavior toward NATO. He writes: This week, Turkey’s parliament finally approved Sweden’s bid for NATO membership, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan swiftly ratified the measure. […]
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