Friday, July 25, 2025

I'm loving how Democrats are trolling Mr. Trump for fun and political profit, accusing him of covering up damaging information that the Biden Administration also didn’t release. “The American people have a right to know what happened,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said this week. He suggested the House GOP maybe “declared the ‘Epstein Recess’ to give Trump time to prepare papers for the pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell.”

 

How to End the Epstein Follies


President Trump’s domestic policy law will create big budget problems for many states and cities. Budget shortfalls aren’t new, and neither is the playbook that leaders usually follow. They make across-the-board cuts to programs and raise fees and maybe taxes. Inside government agencies, they emphasize sharing the pain: implementing hiring freezes, instituting furlough days for public employees and laying off workers based on seniority. Nobody is happy, but at least the approach is equitable and minimizes disruption. This is the wrong playbook. Those who follow the across-the-board approach will end up cutting teachers or raising subway fares while protecting jobs that could have been automated years ago. The public is already frustrated with government for unkept promises and often sluggish services. If our leaders simply manage cuts to avoid upheaval, that frustration will only rise. Now is the time for intelligent disruption.

 

The Cities and States That Are Getting It Right


Robert Gordon and 

Mr. Gordon was a senior official in the Biden and Obama administrations. Ms. Pahlka is a former U.S. deputy chief technology officer and the author of “Recoding America.”

Monday, July 21, 2025

Elon Musk's right-wing turn seems to repel many of the crunchy car buyers who once were Tesla’s biggest fans. Foot traffic to Tesla’s stores fell dramatically last fall, as Musk’s political presence became more visible, and inventory of unsold cars began piling up. In May, Matthew LaBrot, a former sales manager who quit the company in protest, told Bloomberg Businessweek’s podcast Elon, Inc. that he believed the company’s redesigned Model Y sedan was selling poorly because the new design made the date of purchase obvious. “You can’t put an ‘I bought this before he went crazy’ sticker on one of these cars,” LaBrot said. “He was already crazy.”

 

Elon Musk’s Empire Is Creaking Under the Strain of Elon Musk

Tesla, SpaceX and xAI are struggling to deal with the fallout from Musk’s Trump feud and wild bets.


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California’s bullet train, whether or not it ever carries passengers, is a monument to the colossal failures of modern progressive government. From welfare programs to public schools, Democrats make illusory promises as they shovel out money without regard to the results. When will California voters decide they’re tired of getting taken for a ride?

 


Trump gave Newsom a perfect opportunity to cut his losses and shift blame. Why didn’t he take it?


By Allysia Finley

Wind farms a thousand miles away from their market is no solution either. Use the isolated farms now as source for data center with battery and backup diesel while while building nuclear mini mills that finally take over the heavy load

 


Power shortages are coming thanks to wind and solar subsidies. Here’s how they distort energy investment.


Saturday, July 19, 2025

Democrats criticize the Trump team for weaponizing government power to target political opponents. Yet they cheered when Ms. Khan and her two fellow Democratic commissioners leveraged their power over the Chevron-Hess and ExxonMobil-Pioneer Natural Resources acquisitions last year to punish the Biden Administration’s critics.

 

The FTC makes amends for another Lina Khan abuse of power.


The G.O.P.’s decision to sever the half-century-old pairing of farm handouts with food assistance offers Democratic politicians an opportunity to stop supporting environmentally and fiscally ludicrous subsidies for farmers who wouldn’t dream of voting for Democrats. Instead, they could start pushing sensible policies focused on eaters instead of growers. It’s time someone in Washington did.

 

Democrats Can Finally Stop Pandering to Farmers


Mr. Grunwald is a contributing Opinion writer based in Miami and the author of “We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate.”

Forget transmitting wind electric power long distances just supplement it with gas powered generators locally for data centers

 

With One Call, Trump Alters the Fate of a Contested Power Project

Grain Belt Express, a transmission line that would cross 800 miles of the Midwest, is at the center of a number of disputes.

Watch Europe cancel F-35 purchases

 

Brothers in Arms: Macron, Merz and Starmer Plan for a Post-U.S. Future

The leaders of France, Germany and Britain are building parallel diplomatic institutions to defend Europe as President Trump retreats from the continent.

Michael D. Shear and 

Michael Shear reported from London, and Jim Tankersley from Berlin.

Sunday, July 13, 2025

A Melt-up is much more pleasant than a Melt-down but one like Warren Buffet is staying on the sideline waiting for bargain prices

 

The Danger of a Market Melt-Up


Traders have repeatedly shrugged off President Trump’s disruptive tariff wars and fiscal policy, pushing U.S. stock prices back into expensive territory, our columnist says.

Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, finance and the economy.

Saturday, July 12, 2025