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In its budget last month, the White House claimed that “the Administration is committed to protecting and strengthening Social Security.” But the recently released annual report from that program’s trustees portrays a different story. The…

Vice President Kamala Harris has earned a reputation for creepily snickering at utterly inappropriate moments, but recent events indicate her off-putting tic is rubbing off on her boss. In response to serious questions about sobering…

Caledon, Ontario –Loblaws CEO Galen Weston defended his $3 million raise this week by noting that it’s really not that much when you think of how expensive things are nowadays. “Have you been to the grocery store lately?” asked the…

Surprisingly useful in The Washington Post this week is a graphic-illustration article capturing the conflict between a U.S. economy that is by many measures healthy and the anxious, sour outlook that Americans have about their own…

President Joe Biden has a long and storied history of attacking Social Security. His political posturing over how to solve its structural shortfalls will have harmful consequences. Specifically, uncertainty over Social Security’s…

ST JOHN’S – The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador this week announced that after adjustments for inflation, Newfoundland’s time zone will be shifted to 45 minutes past the hour. Premier Andrew Furey stunned the province with the…

It’s important to understand that SVB’s failure didn’t arise from risky startups doing risky startup things. It’s painful for me to watch so many smart pundits and politicians on both the right and the left buy into a media narrative…

Almost immediately after Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed, the Biden administration rushed in to clean up a mess that the president’s inflationary spending and the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate changes created in the first…

Both Republicans and Democrats at the national level have put us down a path of slow growth, massive deficits, and high inflation. With a new Republican majority in the U.S. House and the daunting debt ceiling fight over the bloated $31.4…

BRAMPTON, ON – Loblaw Companies Ltd.’s fourth-quarter results beat analysts’ expectations, which executives credit to the grocery giant’s corporate strategy of “gouging people for things they need to stay alive.” “In the past we tried…