Now that Congress has given the President fast-track Trade Promotion Authority, the first agreement to be considered under these rules (no amendments allowed, up or down vote in 90 days)…

…rise again. From the interest rate rule that I use, the Fed rate started to fall below the curve in 2013. In effect, the Fed rate started to be lower…

Max Ehrenfreund and Roberto Ferdman report the latest news in today’s Washington Post Tens of thousands of Americans just lost their food stamps A 20-year-old rule that was suspended in…

…correspondent Adam Liptak titled “Donald Trump Could Threaten U.S. Rule of Law, Scholars Say.” That article begins: WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump’s blustery attacks on the press, complaints about the…

…that such rules are unnecessary, anyhow, since community banks “were not the primary cause of the financial crisis.” This latter point is a bit of non sequitur. Just because a…

…clear simple rules, because we don’t trust our agents with discretion. It does not mean that the rule must be “never go long on any risky asset”. The second reason…

…Rule” — in a subsequent series of separate posts. White supremacist manipulation of the electoral college was intimately related to efforts to dismantle the collective bargaining framework established by the…

…that residents be landholders. These concessions as a rule had strings to them. When 20 citizens of Haverhill, Mass., raised a subscription among themselves to purchase a house and land…

…sold the rest of the world default insurance (a CDS) and their (implicit) payout blocks the vicious cycle. But the main effect is that the 3% rule prevents Treasuries from…

…while he hangs on to the other two positions, which have no term limits to them. The one rule he will have to break, although apparently it is not in…