Brazil’s fast and free homegrown digital payment system, PIX, has become wildly popular. The Trump administration says it unfairly undercuts U.S. companies.?

 

Brazil Has a New Digital Spending Habit. Now It’s a Trump Target.

By Ana Ionova

Reporting from Rio de Janeiro

"Trump Has Lost Credibility Worldwide, at Huge Cost" by Andreas Kluth brought back to mind his August opinion piece on Trump who instead of kissing up to a like minded Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi he pushes a logical ally into an alliance with China against us.

 

The US Will Regret Throwing India Under the Bus

After long efforts to woo New Delhi as an ally against China, Washington has abruptly veered toward hostility.

By Andreas Kluth

Andreas Kluth is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US diplomacy, national security and geopolitics. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global and a writer for the Economist.

Run It Back

 Dear Diary:

Every weekday morning when I lived in Morningside Heights, I would come out of the elevator, walk through my building’s cavernous lobby and across Riverside Drive to wait for the downtown M5 bus.

At least once a week, I’d realize I had forgotten something I needed. Back I would go: across Riverside Drive, through the lobby, into the elevator and upstairs to grab whatever I’d forgotten.

Invariably, when I came back downstairs and into the lobby, our doorman would say: “Mrs. Wilde, Scene 1, Take 2.”

— Wendy Schmalz Wilde

Dear Diary:

I grew up in the East New York section of Brooklyn. My mother shopped at the corner grocery store, which sold lox by the pound.

She would often buy enough for one or two bagels, not unusual in our relatively poor neighborhood. She called it a half of a quarter of a pound.

Many years later, when I was an adult and living in Flatbush, I had the urge for a bagel with lox.

I stopped off at a nearby supermarket, went to the counter where the fish was sold and ordered an eighth of a pound of lox.

The gentleman cutting the lox paused and looked at me.

“Having company?” he asked.

— Howard Rubin

Hilary Clinton is right in calling Trump a moron who has pushed an affable like minded Narendra Modi of India into the hateful arms of China

 

The Perils of Getting Too Personal in Foreign Policy

By Hillary Rodham Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo

Mrs. Clinton is a former secretary of state and United States senator. Dr. Yarhi-Milo is the dean of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

With the World on tenterhooks we need the respite of the Cleveland Guardians doing the impossible with the offense of "José and Pray"

The No-Name Superstar Behind the Biggest Comeback in Baseball History

For most of his career, José Ramírez has been overlooked. But he’s about to get a whole lot of attention for leading Cleveland to the brink of a division title that once looked mathematically impossible.

By 

Jared Diamond

Sept. 23, 2025 7:00 am ET

Bibi Netanyahu let Israel's vigilance on its border to Palestine lapse resulting in a war making it a pariah to the World

 

What Netanyahu Would Risk by Annexing the West Bank

Israeli leader faces calls from ministers and members of his party to take step that could antagonize the Arab world and Trump

By 

Feliz Solomon

Sept. 22, 2025 11:00 pm ET

Argentina needs a stable currency, which probably requires dollarization.

 

How Trump Can Help Argentina’s Javier Milei

The South American friend of the U.S. needs a stable currency, which probably requires dollarization.

By 

The WSJ Editorial Board

Sept. 22, 2025 5:33 pm ET

These core principles might seem banal to an older generation. But they need repeating now as too many voices preach that America is either a colonialist oppressor (the left) or a debased culture no longer worthy of admiration (the right). Mr. Rubio also honored Kirk’s message, particularly to young men, that the “highest calling we are called to is to be in a successful marriage and to raise productive children.”

 

Marco Rubio’s Charlie Kirk Message

The Secretary of State hits political notes the young need to hear.

By 

The WSJ Editorial Board

Sept. 22, 2025 5:42 pm ET

Ludwig and his colleagues at Lisep have come up with an alternate measure they call the True Living Cost. The TLC includes only a household’s minimal needs: housing, medical care, transportation, groceries, child care, technology such as smartphones and internet connections, and miscellaneous expenses like clothing and personal hygiene. Since 2001 the alternative index has risen 1.3 times faster than the CPI.

Inflation Is Worse Than the CPI Shows, Says Ex US Comptroller

The widely watched gauge of consumer prices fails to capture the cost of living crisis for many Americans, argues Gene Ludwig.

By Laura Bliss and Klara Auerbach

September 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT

Ludwig doesn’t blame the Feds for the CPI’s shortcomings, nor does he propose eliminating the indicator. Rather, he says, the US needs complementary metrics to fully grasp the economic realities that working-class households face, so policymakers can respond. US household net worth may be reaching new peaks, and the CPI may be rising more slowly than in recent years. But the TLC suggests things are far from rosy, Ludwig says. “People can’t have their lives constantly going downhill in a society that is actually net getting wealthier.”

“I start to see the beginning of some kind of bubble,” Joe Tsai, chairman of the e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, said in March of the data center market.

 

What Wall Street Sees in the Data Center Boom

Data center capacity has become a barometer for both the health of the tech market and the risk of an A.I. bubble.

Trump wants to reclaim Bagram Air Base outside Kabul, Afghanistan! WTF is he smoking?

 

Taliban Rebuffs Trump’s Effort to Regain Air Base in Afghanistan

An Afghan official rejected the idea of a renewed presence for the U.S. military in the country, but left the door open for “political and economic relations.”

“Could the 1929 crash have been avoided?” Sorkin asks. “The short answer is yes. There were plenty of opportunities to arrest the forces of speculation before they got out of hand. The long answer is that it would have taken almost divine prescience to look beyond the short-term incentives for making money and focus instead on the long-term consequences.” The crash came because shares were volatile all year. The fear of missing out on the opportunity to buy tipped into the fear of missing out on the opportunity to sell.

 

What Reliving the 1929 Crash Tells Us About Today’s Stock Market

In 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin re-creates the euphoria and mania that led to the most famous stock market slump in history.

By Gary Sernovitz

How long has Dmitri N. Kozak got before he falls out of a window?

 

Longtime Putin Aide Who Opposed Ukraine War Is Granted Rare Resignation

Dmitri N. Kozak’s departure is one of the few known splinters in President Vladimir V. Putin’s inner circle since the start of his invasion of Ukraine.

By Anton Troianovski

Reporting from Berlin

Young men notice the difference. They see Republicans as confident and direct, Democrats as scripted and afraid to offend. Mr. Kirk capitalized on that contrast by showing up on left-leaning campuses, taking tough questions and engaging head-on. Young people didn’t always agree with him, but many respected his courage in meeting them where they were.

 

What Charlie Kirk Understood That Democrats Need to Learn

By John Della Volpe

Mr. Della Volpe is the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics.

Here are five places to start:

• Abandon campaign-cycle thinking — Mr. Kirk built permanent social infrastructure, not seasonal outreach.

• Meet young men in cultural spaces — Democratic politics should be made to feel organic in gaming, fitness and entrepreneurship communities.

• Show leadership in hostile settings — Democrats must appear regularly on conservative podcasts and college campuses without scripts.

• Highlight tangible economic pathways — talk up legislation that helps create opportunities for apprenticeships with living wages and housing policies that deliver affordability in young Americans’ lifetimes.

• Create safe forums for talking about identity — Democrats need to form more spaces for discussing masculinity and purpose without ideological judgment.

It turns out that when kids aren’t allowed to doom scroll, take rude pictures of each other or rot their brains on TikTok during lunch hour or in study hall, they get bored enough to go to the library and check out books.

 

The Unexpected Upside of Phone Bans in Schools

By Jessica Grose

Opinion Writer

Disagreeing constructively requires that you first consider the arguments with which you purport to disagree. In a saner world, the party of credentialed knowledge-class urbanites would know this without being told.

 

The Left’s Vast Lack of Knowledge

Charlie Kirk’s murder demonstrates how the credentialed class keeps itself ignorant.

By 

Barton Swaim

There is a puzzling contradiction at the heart of America’s economy. Investors are sinking more and more money into the stock market. Indexes are reaching record highs. But a growing number of American companies are refusing to participate in public markets at all.

 

The Quiet Force Imperiling Our Booming Stock Market

By Bryce C. Tingle

Mr. Tingle is a business law professor at the University of Calgary.