The False Choice Facing American Agriculture

Renter Nation Returns? Multi-Family Unit Starts & Permits Soar In April On the back of a small uptick in homebuilder confidence (though still languishing)... ...Building Permits jumped notably (+5.8% MoM vs +2.5% exp) in preliminary April data (while Housing Starts dipped 2.8% MoM, though less than the 5.2% MoM decline expected)... The pace of starts and permits on a SAAR basis has remained flat for four years... Multi-family unit starts and permits soared in April... As single-family home starts stagnate... It appears builders believe that 'Renter Nation' is on its way back. ...

Merz Govt May Use Radical 'Federal Coercion' If AfD Party Controls Germany's Saxony-Anhalt Region Via Remix News, The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) won the Saxony-Anhalt state election by a wide margin but fell short of an absolute majority. Nevertheless, the party may still come to power if it can garner enough support from BSW or peel off a few MPs from rival parties. This possibility has thrust an unused and radical clause of the German constitution, federal coercion or "Bundeszwang," to the center of a fight over how far Berlin can...

Duffy Seeking $10 Billion From Congress To Revamp Air Traffic Control System Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on April 21 the department requires $10 billion in additional funding from Congress to overhaul the nation’s air traffic control with a new software system. Duffy told Reuters in an interview that the additional funding would go toward developing new software aimed at improving the efficiency of air travel and reducing flight delays. “This tool lets us see and then spread flights in a way that allows...