Breitbart Business Digest: Lisa Cook Makes Her Bid to Cling to the Fed
Cook’s Lawsuit Puts ‘For Cause’ on Trial Lisa Cook, who was confirmed as a Governor of the Federal Reserve in 2022, wants a federal judge to do something no court ...
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Breitbart Business Digest: When Congress Wrote the Fed Rules, Courts Weren’t Invited
The Clause That Vanished—and the Senators Who Found It When President Donald Trump moved to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa D. Cook this week, he touched off an immediate debate ...
Breitbart Business Digest: Trump’s Intel Investment Isn’t Socialism
The Intelligence of the Intel Equity Stake The White House’s sudden decision to take a ten percent stake in Intel startled some observers as a surprising lurch to government overreach ...
Breitbart Business Digest: Harvard Economist Says Lazy Dads Are Holding Down Fertility
The Free-Lunch Father Problem at Jackson Hole Claudia Goldin, the Harvard economist who won the 2023 Nobel, opened the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s Jackson Hole symposium on Friday ...
Breitbart Business Digest: The Fed’s Inflation Mirage Meets the PMI Reality
The Inventory Inflation Lag Story Slouches Toward Oblivion The Federal Reserve has been telling us for months that tariffs are inflationary. This isn’t a tentative hypothesis—it’s treated as revealed wisdom, ...
Breitbart Business Digest: The Fed’s Family Feud Comes to the Tetons
Powell Heads to The Mountains By the time Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell climbs the stage at Jackson Hole this Friday, the familiar choreography will be missing one element: consensus. ...
Breitbart Business Digest: What if We Had Listened to Pat Buchanan?
Patrick J. Buchanan: The Prophet of American Trade Policy When Pat Buchanan campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination in the 1990s, he made tariffs a central pillar of his platform. ...
Breitbart Business Digest: Trump’s Tariff Policy Is About Bricks Not Bonds
A New ‘Deal Economy’ President Donald Trump’s tariff policy is about a lot more than raising import duties. They’re a lever, and the fulcrum is foreign investment. From chip plants ...
Breitbart Business Digest: What a New Math Breakthrough Means for Economics
The Economic Implications of Lying Silence In February, a high school student from California who goes by the name Hannah Cairo accomplished what top mathematicians had failed to do for ...
Breitbart Business Digest: Modern Trade Theory Backs Trump’s Tariff Playbook
The Optimal Tariff Is Much Higher Than We Thought In a working paper circulated this spring, economists Oleg Itskhoki of UCLA and Dmitry Mukhin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison revisit ...
