Christmas festivities are over, gifts have been opened, and the day after Christmas is spent putting straight the merry mess. James Freeman in the WSJ writes of the tradition amongst many families of watching Christmas movies before they prepare for a long winter’s nap...
As a reminder of how ugly markets can be, this holiday season, Your Survival Guy’s been thumbing through Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (fourth edition) by Charles P. Kindleberger...
Need a break as the old year is ending? Politics in general, Joe Biden vs Donald Trump, Hamas/Gaza, the embroilment at Harvard, our out-of-control national debt, and perhaps even Santa Claus as the 25th approaches? Well, there might be if not an antidote, at least a temporary bromide ...
In a “What have you done for me lately?” world, it’s easy for investors to see this year’s returns on the S&P 500 and compare their performance. That’s short-sighted. Because if we look over the last two years, for example, the S&P 500 has basically returned to where it was this time in 2021...
Chicago bills itself as a “sanctuary city,” for immigrants, accepting of them even without paperwork. But when faced with busloads of migrants shipped from Texas by Gov. Greg Abbott, the city began to lash out with punitive measures targeted at bus companies and drivers ...
At The New York Sun, Anthony Grant discusses the recent immigration reform in France, calling it “one of the most dramatic French political upsets since the 1990s.”...
In France, President Emmanuel Macron has been humiliated after members of parliament first rejected his immigration proposal and then passed through one more akin to the plan proposed by his long-time political opponent, Marine Le Pen ...
