The Wealth Tax Revival Is Repeating a Failed Experiment

Is The Fed Finally Done Rescuing Markets?  Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance GLJ Research’s Gordon Johnson is one of my favorite analysts on the street to read and gets a rare endorsement from me (I hate basically everyone selling sell-side style research) because, like my friend Mark Spiegel, he is one of the last few analysts out there that seems committed to the truth….no matter how ridiculous it makes him look in the short term while he’s waiting for his theses to play out. Johnson came away from this week’s Fed meeting with a...

Now that the Trump administration is telling America that communism, once again, poses a grave threat to US “national security,” the question naturally arises: Will the US government revive the programs that protected us from the Reds during the 45 years of the national-security establishment’s old Cold War racket? If so, right at the top […]

US-brokered Israel-Lebanon talks are already adjourned for the month of August, but as the war continues various controversies raise doubts over whether it would be worth coming back to the table in September, and indeed if Israel is taking these matters seriously. The latest round of controversies started Friday with the Israeli Foreign Ministry publishing […]