Russia Is No Superpower? Then What The Hell Does That Make Europe?

Iran’s air defense system succeeded on Friday, April 3, in downing a US F-15E over Iran. There is some dispute and confusion about the exact location (more about that later). The pilot and the WSO (i.e., Weapons System Officer) both successfully ejected but were separated. The pilot was quickly rescued by the Combat Search and […]

Bigger Isn't Better: A Case For Downsizing The Federal Reserve Authored by via Paul Mueller via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), President Trump’s conflicts with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and with Board of Governors member Lisa Cook have obscured real shortcomings at the Federal Reserve and brought little useful change. These conflicts tend to focus on whether the Fed’s target interest rate is too high or too low. Meanwhile, institutional problems at the Fed have been largely overlooked. But there is an opportunity here with Trump’s nominee for Fed chair, Kevin...

Musk, Altman Court Battle Commences Over The Future Of OpenAI Authored by Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times, A contentious battle years in the making between Tesla owner Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman begins this week before a federal court in Oakland, California, where nine jurors will be asked to decide whether Altman and others betrayed OpenAI’s founding mission as a nonprofit artificial intelligence (AI) lab dedicated to the public good. The outcome could have a profound impact, not just for OpenAI—the creator of ChatGPT, currently valued at $852 billion...