From the start of the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron has fluttered about like a busy buffoon with his dubious diplomacy. Now he is publicly calling for the Ukrainians to negotiate a ...
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The Stark Warning To All World Governments
Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia was a shocker. Two utterly nonestablishment candidates won the top spots and will face each other in a runoff on June 19. The front-runner is a one-time left...
Steve Forbes Rips Biden Ukraine Response
This segment of What’s Ahead deals with a basic question: Do Joe Biden and his team really want Ukraine to win this war? Ukraine desperately needs particular kinds of advanced ground and air weapons ...
How To Empower Tens Of Millions Of Stockholders In One Fell Swoop
Tens of millions of investors put money into index funds, which now total tens of trillions of dollars. An unintended consequence is that the managers of these index funds wield immense power over cor...
Steve Forbes Tears Into Covid-19 Restrictions
The surge in the latest variant of Covid-19 has set off ominous noises about another round of mandatory indoor mask wearing, “focused” lockdowns and school closures next fall. This segment of What’s A...
Can Price Transparency Save The Future Of American Healthcare?
If you need an operation, this episode of What’s Ahead makes the compelling case for why you should check out the Surgery Center of Oklahoma. It represents the future of American healthcare. For 25 ye...
Energy Policy Failures May Lead To Summer Blackouts
This episode of What’s Ahead lays out why we are in for serious power outages this summer. The problem isn’t that we’ll be experiencing an unforeseeable surge in electricity; it’s that bad government ...
The Fed’s Plans To Slow Inflation Will Kill The Economy: Is A Recession Inevitable?
This segment of What’s Ahead examines a pernicious idea that has a vise-like grip on Federal Reserve policy and is widely accepted among economists and policymakers. The notion is that the economy is ...
What Next For Cryptos?
The collapsing values in cryptocurrencies and crypto exchanges are reminiscent of the bursting of the dot.com bubble more than 20 years ago. Back then, most of these speculative stocks were listed on ...
A Carbon Tax Won’t Fight Climate Change, But Will Make Life More Expensive
A misguided group in Congress is trying to hammer out a scheme to levy tariffs on such imports as steel, cement and aluminum, whose production in certain countries supposedly causes a higher output of...
Why Won’t The Fed Use It?
To no one’s surprise, the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it was raising its benchmark interest rate by half-a-percentage point and next month would begin reducing its bloated bond holdings t...
Can We Stop Putin From Waging Nuclear Warfare?
Putin and other Russian officials have been warning that Moscow may use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Unthinkable? Horrifyingly, less so, as this segment of What’s Ahead soberly makes clear. Putin knows...
Democrats’ Proposed Tax Hike Is Reckless And Not The Solution To Inflation
A few days ago, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–NY) unveiled his solution for rising prices: higher taxes. This episode of What’s Ahead lays out why Schumer’s nostrum is the economic equivalen...
How Biden’s Regulations Undermine His Own Infrastructure Plan
President Biden repeatedly proclaims his pride in getting a huge infrastructure bill through Congress with strong bipartisan support. One would think that with his plummeting popularity the President ...
The Fed Is Pushing The Economy Into A Recession
This segment of What’s Ahead explains why April has been brutal for stocks—with no lasting relief in sight. This, despite the fact that reported earnings in the first quarter have, so far, been impres...
Twitter Is A Mess! Is Elon Musk The Only One Who Can Save It?
This episode of What’s Ahead focuses on the two main tasks facing Elon Musk with his acquisition of Twitter. One is achieving his goal of making Twitter a true public square of free speech and open de...
A Secret Weapon For Clean Energy Abundance?
When it comes to producing a sustainable and plentiful supply of energy, the U.S. has a huge, underappreciated advantage over other nations. Here, individuals and private companies are allowed to own ...
Will The Fed Cause A Recession? What You Need To Know
The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates in a belated response to an inflation that a year ago we were told was transitory and nothing to worry about. This segment of What’s Ahead warns that the ...
Can Trust In Public Health Be Saved?
Before the pandemic, most people believed that public health agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of ...
A Warning To All Democratic Nations?
This segment of What’s Ahead discusses why the poor showing of incumbent Emmanuel Macron in the first round of the French presidential election should ring alarm bells in every democratic nation. His ...
Biden’s Thinking On Energy Is Deeply Flawed And Possibly Deadly
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made telling statements this week that revealed deep flaws in how the Biden Administration views the energy world. At one event Buttigieg said that even if we w...
Biden’s New Budget Is A Dangerous Bust!
This segment of What’s Ahead lays out how stunningly unrelated President Biden’s proposed budget is to the real needs of the U.S. economy and how reckless it is for our defense necessities in an ever ...
Why Won’t Biden Give Ukraine What It Needs To Win This War?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is making exasperated pleas for more weapons. Yet President Biden and NATO are not responding with genuine urgency, in both the quantity and the types of weapons...
Biden’s New Minimum Tax On Billionaires Is Just Another Economy-Killing Tax
President Biden’s addiction to economy-killing taxes remains intense, as a new idea in his proposed budget unfortunately confirms. Biden’s latest scheme would hit rich people with a 20% minimum tax on...
What America Needs If He’s Serious
In off-the-cuff remarks at a recent meeting of the Business Roundtable, President Biden said, “There’s going to be a new world order out there, and we’ve got to lead it.” This episode of What’s Ahead ...
Watch Out! SEC Climate Change Disclosure Rule Will Hurt Stocks And Our Economy
The SEC is readying a new rule—which runs an obese 510 pages—that vastly expands the powers of this agency over operations of public companies, and countless private entities as well, in the name of f...
As MLB.TV Enters 20th Anniversary Of Live Streaming, New Content And Features Added For 2022
MLB.TV continues to be the gold standard for live streaming. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo … [+] Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images MLB.TV,...
Breakthrough Or Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing?
For months the crypto industry had been on tenterhooks as to how the Biden Administration would deal with the explosive growth in crypto assets. Many feared the president would take a regulatory sledg...
New U.S.-Iran Nuclear Deal? Why Biden’s Pursuit Is Dangerous And Delusional
President Biden and his team are going all-out to reach an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program. This episode of What’s Ahead lays out why such an accord would be a disaster. Contrary to White...
The 10 Best New Movies Added To Netflix In March
SANTA MONICA, CA – JUNE 16: Actor Lakeith Stanfield attends the 2018 MTV Movie And TV Awards at … [+] Barker Hangar on June 16, 2018 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/Fil...
A Policy Mistake That Won’t Fight Inflation
This segment of What’s Ahead explains why what Federal Reserve policymakers do when they meet next week will start a process that will ultimately shove the economy into a slowdown, if not outright rec...
What Biden Doesn’t Get Regarding Energy
In announcing that the U.S. would be banning Russian oil imports, President Biden declared that the war in Ukraine showed that we need to achieve energy independence (which we had before he took offic...