Israeli Settlers Kill 19-Year-Old Palestinian American in the West Bank

The Replacements: How US Helps Foreign Workers Take American Jobs Authored by Steven Edginton via RealClearInvestigations, Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer who can't find a job, considers herself a victim of an H-1B visa program run amok. Her story, a U.S. native replaced by a foreign-born employee who is willing to work at a significantly lower wage, has become commonplace, particularly in the tech industry. Adding insult to injury, she says, her CEO, who hails from India, told her to train the man he selected to replace her before laying her...

FOMC Minutes Signal Fed Saw "Dual Sided" Risks From Iran War Since the last FOMC meeting (March 18th), a lot has happened (war, more war, and now less war), and rate-change expectations hawkishly surged, then dovishly normalized today... And given the last 24 hours, perhaps this information is more useful now, as we return to macro-fundamentals from geopolitical chaos running markets. The minutes, released three weeks after the meeting, underscore the Fed's dilemma as it seeks to fill its congressional mandates of low inflation and maximum employment. Fed officials wrestled with starkly differing...

The majority of members of Iran’s parliament have issued a statement saying that President Trump’s “termination” of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding shows that Iran’s problems with the US cannot be solved through negotiations. The statement, signed by 180 of the 290 members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, called for action to be taken in […]