Key Events This Week: Jobs, ISMs, Fed Speakers And More Earnings On Deck

Top US Diplomat Takes Post In Caracas As Part Of Post-Maduro Transition Plan For the first time in many years, the United States has a top diplomat officially in residence representing Washington to Venezuela. Veteran US diplomat John M. Barrett has arrived in Caracas to serve as chargé d’affaires at the US Embassy in Venezuela, the mission announced Thursday, marking a new phase in Washington's diplomatic presence in Venezuela, and after a US military raid on Jan.3 ousted and captured longtime leader Nicolás Maduro. Image via Prensa Libre Barrett is a career member of...

This is it. Will a "better man" finally succeed where all other central planners have failed?

Why Bernie Sanders' AI Bill Is Fascistic And Dangerous Authored by Amirhossein Eshtiaghi via The Mises Institute, Bernie Sanders is a socialist populist. His unfamiliarity with the fundamentals of economics explains why he considers Denmark to be socialist. A former Danish Prime Minister once implicitly addressed such claims, noting that Denmark’s economy is not socialist, but rather a market economy. But the truth does not matter to American leftists. He has now made headlines again with a bill that would expand state participation in the AI sector—a plan that, contrary to the claims of his supporters, could...