Economy

The price of gasoline is once again a political landmine. Trump’s war with Iran has awoken the public from its obsessive daydreaming about the Epstein files or other distracting issues which impact their personal lives in minor to negligible ways. [Note: This doesn’t mean that there aren’t substantive and meaningful aspects to those issues to be dealt with, but that their direct impact on your life is dubious.] The price of gasoline (and other petroleum derived products) howe

There are assessments, reports, and studies about the effect of tariffs on America’s Economy. This is not really unusual or unexpected. Those involved in monitoring and measuring America’s economy do this as part of providing the data and analysis that are needed by our government, our businesses, and our citizens; not to mention economists and financial institutions. What is surprising is that there is a debate about how tariffs operate at the most basic level. This is easil

This is surely an easy question to answer. And there is no shortage of people or entities who are more than willing to answer it. We have...