Fed’s Powell walking tightrope on rate cuts as inflation bites

Art Laffer, Founder and Chairman of Laffer Associates, Reacts to Potential Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, On ‘How to Make Money’ on Whether the Fed Will Cut Interest Rates in 2024 Discuss. #foxbusiness #moneymaking Few expect the Fed to cut rates on Wednesday. Instead, investors will analyze Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s Fed speech to determine […]
Trudeau Government Cuts off Arms Sales to Israel

Canada’s government, led by Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, announced on Tuesday that it would end arms sales to Israel (as they currently are), bowing to pressure from radical leftists as Israel fights genocidal Palestinian terrorists. according to Al Jazeera reports that Canada’s arms exports to Israel have been negligible, amounting to less than $90 […]
NYC DOE ‘fighting like heck’ to ensure prekindergarten programs don’t face cuts

The New York City Department of Education is “fighting like hell” to save preschool, 3K and other popular programs from budget cuts as officials scramble to replenish tens of millions of dollars in depleted federal coronavirus funds. School Superintendent David Banks said Monday. The head of the Department of Education is in trouble with the […]
Is a Copper Crisis Coming? Prices Hit New Highs on Smelter Cuts | OilPrice.com – OilPrice.com

via metal minor By mid-March, copper prices had reached their highest since April 2023. Prices had previously bottomed out in early February, but strong upward momentum has since broken past all-time highs in a long-term sideways trend. Prices recorded a moderate decline of 1.74% month-on-month throughout February, but in the first two weeks of March […]
The Players: Sam Burns waltzes around TPC Sawgrass, proving value of 36-hole cuts

Should there be a cut or not? That’s the important question golf fans have on the PGA Tour and during his LIV golf circus. LIV takes pride in its 54-hole no-cut event, ensuring everyone in the field gets paid. The PGA Tour countered this by creating a signature event structure. Five of these eight events […]
Funding cuts are pushing our national parks to the breaking point

I worked for the National Park Service for 41 years, working in program offices, battlefield sites, and large national parks such as Shenandoah, the Great Smoky Mountains, and Yosemite. I retired nearly 11 years before he did and became an advocate and member of the American National Parks Conservation Coalition, where I currently serve as […]
Elite NYC school with super star alums cuts theater program as vendor and city point fingers

A much-lauded theater program at Manhattan’s prestigious performing arts school has come to an end, leaving the city and its vendors to point fingers at each other. The news sparked outrage at the Hell’s Kitchen School of Professional Performing Arts, whose alumni include actors Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg and Jeremy Allen White, and musicians Alicia […]
Fresh data on inflation, jobs could force Fed to rethink rate cuts

The Fed’s path to lower interest rates this year is further complicated by new data showing that while the job market remains strong, inflation remains high. The Producer Price Index, which measures wholesale inflation, rose 0.6% in February, twice the Dow Jones estimate of 0.3% and the 0.3% rise recorded in January, the Labor Department […]
GOP senator: Biden and Trump would ‘enforce’ Social Security cuts

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) criticized both President Biden and former President Trump on Thursday, accusing them both of having no real plan to save Social Security. Earlier this week, President Trump said “there’s a lot that can be done in terms of cutting entitlements” on Social Security and Medicare. The comment came under fire from […]
CBO predicts nondefense spending bills won’t face automatic cuts post-April 30

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Wednesday that even if Congress fails to pass the six remaining spending bills by the April 30 deadline, funding for non-defense programs will not be subject to automatic spending cuts. announced. prediction This is a potentially key issue in an ongoing funding battle between Republicans and Democrats that […]