PODCAST: Why This Recession is Different

Fed Independence Is Sacred... Or So We've Been Told Authored by Richard Roberts via RealClearMarkets.com, For the better part of a year, many had become convinced that the Federal Reserve's independence was in its final days. The narrative rested on two prongs. First, an FOMC browbeaten by relentless public attacks, threats of removal, and a Justice Department criminal probe into Chair Jerome Powell. The pressure, many argued, had grown so intense that Fed decisions would no longer be trusted to reflect economics rather than politics. Second, a new chair expected to arrive in May...

They’re not even trying anymore. US middle east envoy Steve Witkoff told Fox News on Saturday that Iran is “probably a week away” from having the materials necessary to make a nuclear bomb — a line that Iran hawks have been falsely repeating for over three decades. It’s such a transparently bogus claim that even The Jerusalem Post dunked on Witkoff for […]

Most Americans are not buying the White House’s narrative that the war on Iran is making the world a safer place.  A poll released by Fox News on Wednesday found that 51% of Americans believe they are “less safe” because of the US and Israeli war against Iran. Only three in ten Americans thought the […]