Trump Admin Nears Possible Rescue Deal For Spirit Airlines As 14,000 Jobs At Risk

For A Housing Fix, Look To The Laboratories We Know As States Authored by Edward Pinto via RealClearMarkets, Federal housing policy is afflicted by several shortcomings—it is expensive, outdated, and inflexible. The states, free from these restrictions, have begun experimenting with tailored approaches. Congress should take note. In 1932 Justice Brandeis observed that “one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” By its nature, the...

French Navy Boards 5th Russian 'Shadow Fleet' Vessel Off Europe Since September French President Emmanuel Macron has announced yet another highly provocative naval seizure of a Russian so-called shadow fleet vessel.  "On Tuesday, the French navy boarded the oil tanker Deliver as it was passing off the coast of Sicily in breach of maritime law," Macron wrote in a post on X, revealing the prior interdiction that took place earlier in the week. Illustrative, via French Navy Reports say it flew a Cameroonian flag and was sailing from Russia's Baltic port of Primorsk,...

Why Won't China Cut Ukraine Off From Drone-Related Sales? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Indefinitely perpetuating the Ukrainian Conflict through these means indefinitely delays the full implementation of the US' planned "Pivot (back) to (East) Asia", can lead to Russia selling its natural resource wealth to China at bargain-basement prices, and maintains China's "active neutrality". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) referenced the EU's summertime disbursement of the first €1 billion to Ukraine for drone procurement out of the €6 billion promised for this program in an article late last month about...