…could retaliate in devastating ways, for instance, by curbing rare earth exports US manufacturers desperately need. The former treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, called Trump’s tariff debacle “the worst self-inflicted policy…

…rare midday post from me, but this is important breaking legal news! A Trump-appointed judge in the Southern District of Texas, Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., has held that the Trump administration may not…

…no capital or certainty. The third is a potentially devastating response from China. Today, China cut off the supply of rare earth minerals and magnets to the U.S. These products go into…

…Natural permanent magnets (“lodestone”) were very rare. The first telephone converted sound into a vibration that created a current in an electro-magnet was carried “down the wire” to the receiving…

…expenditures for goods (red), which tends to track real retail sales well, but won’t be reported for several more weeks: With rare exceptions – one of which was in 2023-24…

…little $71,500 a year jobs. Not all of them are corrupt, of course, and the Democrats, as imperfect as they are, are vastly preferable to the Republicans, who with rare…

…be reported for several more weeks (Note: graphs normed to 100 as of just before the pandemic): With rare exceptions – one of which was in 2023-24 – when real…

…test (also called the heel prick test), which tests for nine rare conditions. Under the new plan, a blood sample will instead undergo whole genome sequencing, which maps out the…

…of avoidable deaths—more than 14 million over five years. The former U.S. presidents made rare public criticisms of the Trump administration as they took part in a video farewell for…

…rare coin dealer, $230,000 on family vacations at a rental home in Maine and $20,800 for a Patek Philippe watch. “Frost also allegedly used investor money to make more than…