Like Trump, Waller favors more monetary inflation and is “a dove in favor of running the economy hot.”

Trump on Monday suggested that Miriam Adelson, one of his biggest donors during his 2024 campaign, “loves” Israel more than the United States.

Karen Kwiatkowski: The civil war is ongoing, and Trump sits astride a state that is reacting far too late and with one hand tied behind its back.

$20 billion US taxpayer dollars will be used to bail out a country led by Trump ally and State-of-Israel fanboy Javier Milei. 

Many think of the economy as being like a space ship, which occasionally slips from the path of stable economic growth and stable prices and has to be steered back by the “experts” in monetary policy. When economic activity slows down and falls below the path of stable economic growth and stable prices, it is the duty of the central bank to give the economy a push, which will place it back onto the right path.

Gold broke through $4,100 per ounce for the first time on Monday, while silver rose above $52/oz, hitting another record high.

President Trump’s administration in 2025, “is broadening its rare earth metals price support policy to include more U.S. mining, refining, and magnet production companies, building on a successful precedent set with MP Materials.” US Rare Earth is the US number two rare earth metals (REM) mining company.

Jamaica is currently in the midst of constitutional reform, a process being hailed as a watershed moment in the island’s history. Much of the public debate has been consumed by two proposals: the desire to become a republic and the replacement of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London with the Caribbean Court of Justice as the final appellate court. These ideas are being advanced with great fanfare, yet they are driven more by sentiment than by sober reasoning.