by Sarah Cowgill | Nov 28, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, International, Opinion
The Chinese Communist Party regime does not like – or, more accurately, does not tolerate – popular protests. So, it’s a rare occasion indeed when citizens take to the streets demanding the resignation of their president, Xi Jinping. But after another restrictive “no...
by Andrew Moran | Nov 27, 2022 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Good Reads, Opinion
This past summer, progressives celebrated California regulators for passing rules to prohibit the sale of new gasoline-powered automobiles by 2035 as part of the government’s efforts to shut down climate change faster than a small business in Los Angeles. The...
by Andrew Moran | Nov 20, 2022 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Good Reads, Opinion
For many Wall Street firms, the baseline scenario for 2023 is a US recession. However, a few months after coming out of a technical downturn – back-to-back quarters of negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth – the world’s largest economy might already be in...
by Dave Patterson | Nov 14, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
On Nov. 14, President Joe Biden sat with China’s leader Xi Jinping in their first in-person encounter since the 2020 election. In previous teleconferences between the leaders, little was accomplished. But the bar for these talks practically scraped the ground,...
by Andrew Moran | Nov 13, 2022 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Good Reads, Opinion
From the worst week in cryptocurrency’s history to the sudden joy of a 7.7% annual inflation rate, it has been quite the wild week in the world of economics, especially when all eyes were on the 2022 midterm election. So, what happened while millions of Americans...