While we in Berlin were allowed to witness the delirious wedding dance of the coalition of debt kings around Friedrich Merz, Washington offered the stage for a bizarre world theater. Theater mood held the stock exchanges in its grip, as…
This week, like the week before it, can only be described by one word: tumultuous. Stock markets around the world have plummeted, phone calls are being made, messages are being put out on social media, and everyone is trying desperately…
President Donald Trump’s goal of reciprocal trade is a false promise, based neither on economic laws nor market reality. His arbitrary tariffs are causing an immediate meltdown of the world’s financial markets and a loss of confidence in the American…
WASHINGTON — “Don’t be a PANICAN,” President Donald Trump cautioned on social media. Critics have questioned the universal tariffs he unleashed last week, and Americans have had to steel themselves before checking the balance of their 401(k)s. The Trump tariffs…
President Trump has razed an economic order that has prevailed for decades. It became an “unlevel” playing field, tilted against the United States — anyone who can read a chart can see that. There are non-economic resentments as well. For…
Trump’s tariff hammer has caught global markets off guard and plunged them into severe turbulence. It’s hard to find bearings in the fog of volatility and panic. Yet, a trend is slowly taking shape: The U.S. is targeting China’s trade…
Full disclosure. I am a Newsmax TV contributor. But I write this as a conservative — and as someone who has observed the serious rise of conservative media over time. The prompting for this column was the invitation to be present on…
So the political crazy of the moment is: Who will Vice President Kamala Harris pick as her vice presidential running mate. And the unspoken, so-called “political wisdom” is that whomever it is, he — and apparently only men are in…
Elon’s big grift is in trouble. His electric vehicle (EV) operation — which allowed car manufacturers to “offset” their carbon footprints by purchasing “credits” from Elon in lieu of making EVs themselves — had been priced with the expectation that…
