by Andrew Moran | Nov 14, 2024 | Articles, Business News, Opinion
It has been eight days since President-elect Donald Trump secured a second term, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in what was billed as the most important election in US history. Whether the hyperbole was accurate or not, the Trump effect was observed in the...
by Andrew Moran | Jul 19, 2024 | Articles, Business News, Opinion
If there were one issue to bring together economists of all stripes, it would be opposition to rent control laws. “In many cases, rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing,” said...
by Andrew Moran | May 6, 2024 | Articles, Business News, Opinion
The Federal Reserve concluded its widely anticipated May Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy meeting on May 1. Financial markets were unsurprised to see that the US central bank left its benchmark rate unchanged at a 23-year high of 5.25% to 5.5%. But while...
by Andrew Moran | Apr 30, 2024 | Articles, Business News, Opinion
Have the Federal Reserve’s 23-year-high interest rates finally filtered into the US economy? Investors are spooked after the latest not-so-good GDP report, resulting in a triple-digit nosedive on Wall Street during the April 25 trading session. Once the Bureau...
by Andrew Moran | Jan 31, 2024 | Articles, Business News, Good Reads, Opinion
China. That’s it. That’s the joke. A flood of polling data has shown the growing popularity of communism and socialism, proving that colleges and universities are drowning in Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Stalinist-Kimist-Castroist-Ceaușescuist literature and propaganda....
