Legacy media outlets are scrambling to come up with reasons to declare a potential presidential campaign by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) dead on arrival. This has led to some incredible attempts, which now include concerns that DeSantis might be too popular to become president.
Three banks have failed, and several more are on the docket for downgrades by credit rating agencies. The post mortem of a bank failure always reveals idiosyncratic mistakes the bank made. In the case of the Silicon Valley Bank, it relied excessively on uninsured deposits on its liability side, and on Treasury bonds and Mortgage-Backed...
For those in Washington who are patting themselves on the back for a job well done on positioning the United States for improved global competitiveness on clean energy, you’re not done yet. Yes, the future looks much brighter thanks to the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, CHIPs and Science Act, and Inflation...
President Biden urged Congress on Friday to give the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) more power to punish executives in charge of banks that fail and require assistance from the federal government. In a request to Congress, the president said the FDIC should have more authority to take back executives’ pay, levy fines against them...
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A police captain for the Oklahoma City Police Department was filmed repeatedly asking a sergeant turn off his body camera during a DUI stop earlier this week, as seen in new footage released by the department.