Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), recently warned about the danger from the United States government’s high debt level. She also criticized some government officials, such as US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, for believing that economic growth can make the debt problem disappear.
In spite of Trump’s promises to install a democratic regime in Venezuela, that never happened. And no one seems to care.
New York Fed data shows serious credit card delinquencies among Americans 70+ hit 6.3% in Q2 2026 — their highest level since 2011.
In the rest of the world, the Israeli PM is often blamed for the Iran war. His opponents say he hasn’t been tough enough with Tehran.
“French government bonds, known as OATs, have been among the hardest hit in a global bond selloff fueled by inflation fears, higher interest-rate expectations, and concerns about government debt.”
“Many parallels can be drawn between where [the] market stands right now and the factors leading to the housing crash nearly two decades ago.”
The architects of Proposition 40—California’s proposed 5 percent tax on billionaire net worth—say they want to tame inequality. But in their rush to redistribute wealth, they risk undermining something more fundamental: the rule of law.
Christopher Coyne and Daniel Klein—both professors of economics at George Mason University— have recently issued a statement on the need for America’s foreign policy to move in the direction of peace and multipolarity.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, black diaspora intellectuals—Marcus Garvey, C. L. R. James, and W. E. B. Du Bois—responded to colonial and racial atrocities in the Caribbean and American colonies with what would later be called Pan-Africanism: the idea that people of African descent share common interests and should unite.
