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November 25, 2020

Opposition leaders launch unprecedented partnership to funnel funds, bypassing Maduro controls

In the face of the dizzying depreciation of the Venezuelan bolívar, the U.S. government is skirting the censorship imposed by the Nicolas Maduro regime with an unprecedented public-private partnership known as the "stablecoin solution."  

September 15, 2020

GOP senators short of needed votes for Trump’s controversial fed pick

Senate Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D, confirmed Tuesday that the U.S. Senate is short the 51 votes needed to confirm President Trump’s controversial pick of Judy Shelton, to serve  on the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate-setting committee.

May 4, 2020

Hospitals are paid more for Medicare patients confirmed or presumed to have coronavirus

If a Medicare patient is diagnosed – or even presumed – to have contracted coronavirus, termed COVID-19, hospitals across the United States are given more money from the federal government, economic assessments show. That amount can so much as triple if the patient requires a ventilator, raising questions as to whether there is a financial impetus to overstate coronavirus numbers.

March 12, 2020

AOC criticized for 'inapt' comparison between Fed's coronavirus response and student loan debt relief

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., suggested Thursday that the Federal Reserve, through its response to the coronavirus, proved the U.S. government could shoulder the burden of student loan debt relief.

March 3, 2020

Trump attacks Federal Reserve’s Powell over coronavirus response

President Trump early Tuesday took aim at the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell over the central bank's refusal to cut interest rates like other countries in order to defend against a financial downturn threatening the global economy due to the coronavirus.

November 27, 2019

Deroy Murdock: Put Harriet Tubman on a new $25 bill

The exciting and powerful film "Harriet" should earn its heroine a well-deserved platform on which everyone can see her: a new $25 bill.

August 20, 2019

Trump says payroll tax cut on the table, rejects recession warnings

President Trump confirmed Tuesday that he's been considering a payroll tax cut but rejected the notion that he's worried about a possible recession on the horizon.

July 16, 2019

Peter Morici: Fed must radically change or become irrelevant

The Fed is chasing an irrelevant target with policy tools that don’t work.

May 2, 2019

Trump's pick for Fed board says he regrets joke about Obamas: 'I shouldn't have said it'

President Trump Federal Reserve Board pick Stephen Moore on Tuesday expressed regret for comments he made in 2016 regarding the Obamas leaving the White House, as doubt lingers over his nomination.

April 27, 2019

Deroy Murdock: Steve Moore’s critics miss the point

Bland, conventional economists don’t like Moore’s kind. So, they have hurled rocks at him since his nomination.