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Recently, the SEC announced a "comprehensive review" of its consolidated audit trail, or "CAT," and asked for public comments due in 60 days, on June 15, 2026, including on whether the commission should "eliminate the CAT in favor of developing a ...

The Senate has now confirmed Kevin Warsh's nomination to lead the Federal Reserve. Warsh will inherit an economy with significant long-term potential, but also a growing challenge on Main Street. In conversations I conducted with small business ...

So, after today's Cabinet meeting and intense discussions with envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, as well as Vice President Vance, President Trump decided that the talks are going well enough so he's going to extend Friday's deadline to a week ...

This week marks the third week of the government shutdown - and there continues to be no end in sight. This week, millions of federal workers officially missed their first paycheck. These workers are staring down the barrel of piling bills; many are ...

Europe is plagued by a number of existential crises. Yet they are all self-inflicted -- and by a dominant, therapeutic culture that embraced utopian but lethal bromides. These suicidal wounds are now nearing the end-stage. Indeed, they are destroying ...

Young adults need lower housing prices, not longer mortgages. The median age of first-time home buyers is now 40, according to a recent report from the National Association of Realtors. Among all buyers, the median age was 59. Home buyers are more ...

In dramatic fashion, President Trump announced American negotiations with at least one senior Iranian official, only a day after he warned that United States forces would knock out Iranian power plants throughout the country. The stock market ...

California Democrats should listen to The Rolling Stones. The band famously fled England in the 1970s, heading into tax exile in the south of France. Mick Jagger and his mates weren't alone -- a generation of rock royalty abandoned the U.K. because ...

Republicans are beginning to sound the alarm about the 2026 midterm elections, and not without reason. The concern was crystallized by a Texas state Senate race in a district President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024 but which recently ...

More than a week after Election Day, the reality has set in that Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani will be mayor of New York City. Independents, moderates, and Republicans in the city are rightfully disheartened. However, there is still hope if ...