President Donald Trump says the quiet part out loud. He has no sotto voce setting. This militates against statesmanship.  Former President Bill Clinton told CNN years ago it’s best to be “brutally” honest in private but, if you want someone’s help, not to say things in public that embarrass them. But Trump doesn’t work that […]

GOOD NEWS ON INFLATION. Biden-era inflation, what many call the “affordability crisis,” was the No. 1 reason Donald Trump was elected president for a second time. Yes, voters wanted Trump to fix the Biden disaster at the U.S.-Mexico border. And yes, they were concerned about crime, woke, and chaos in global affairs. But inflation was the […]

President Donald Trump set 25% tariffs on all aluminum and steel products after reversing on his previous threats to enforce a 50% tariff. Canada threatened to increase taxes on electricity sold to the United States before Trump said he would double the tariff rate. Canada removed the tax and Trump reduced the tariff to the […]

Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence Freedman, describing Vladimir Putin‘s rationale for invading Ukraine, calls “tendentious history”? This week, it started to look like the answer might be yes. In retrospect, it’s clear how the Biden administration’s economic policy stimulated inflation, which, […]

Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was content to make Canada a vehicle of Palestinian propaganda and Hamas interests. His replacement, Mark Carney, has been more coy on the topic before now, and it looks like he is going to follow down the same anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian propaganda path as his predecessor. Shortly after being elected […]

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Wednesday that Canada becoming a U.S. state is the “best way” to merge the two countries’ economies. “The best way, the president has said it, the best way to actually merge the economies of Canada and the United States is for Canada to become our 51st state. If they want...

Trump administration officials are reaching out to their Russian counterparts as the White House says the ball is in Moscow’s court to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine. National security adviser Mike Waltz spoke with his Russian counterpart on Wednesday “in a pursuit of ending this war and striking a peace deal with Russia and...

The Department of Education is paving the way for its own destruction after laying off half of its workforce on Tuesday, leaving President Trump allies eager for more hits while the agency's defenders prepare legal action. A senior department official said the layoffs, which came about a week after Education Secretary Linda McMahon was...

Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin believes that the economy is not in trouble and that people are overreacting to the new administration's policy changes.

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said that the business community “understands” what President Trump is trying to do with levies on various goods, even though they want "lower tariffs everywhere.” Solomon also said during an interview with FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo that Trump is more “engaged” with the business community than his White House predecessor,...