France is an economic time bomb

October 11, 2025

France is an economic time bomb

Fiscally bankrupt, France is trapped in economic stagnation. The immediate issue is the 2026 budget. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned due to an inability to negotiate a budget for 2026. Still, President Emmanuel Macron and Lecornu insist that a path to a budget compromise remains possible. Time will tell. However, the political crisis is pushing up interest rates among the countries […]

Our system is broken for ‘insane’ criminals

It has become clear that our criminal justice system in many states has been broken by weak laws, weak prosecutors, and weak judges when it comes to violent criminals who have been adjudicated to be “insane.” Florida police recently arrested Ronald Exantus for a parole violation and failure to register as a convicted felon. In 2015, Exantus […]

Donald Trump and the insane Nobel Peace Prize snub

President Donald Trump has not only secured a ceasefire in the brutal war between Israel and Hamas that has raged almost nonstop since Hamas’s horrific attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, but he and his administration also secured an agreement that, in its first phase, will return the 20 living hostages held in Gaza (and the […]

No, Trump was not snubbed of the Nobel. Machado is a worthy recipient

What would you call a political activist who went head-to-head with a bloodthirsty, communist leader, suspected of killing tens of thousands of people and viciously silenced opposition? How would you describe a woman who stood up to a corrupt, brutal dictator who stole a country’s presidential election and arrested citizens of his country who protested? […]

The political economy of artificial intelligence

As someone who came to artificial intelligence via economics and finance, when I first began advising and writing about technology public policies, I was struck by a paradox. At every roundtable, someone would raise the specter of overregulation stifling innovation. Yet, when I asked who was lobbying for these lighter-touch rules, the answer was always […]

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Former McDonald’s employee brokers historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas

President Donald Trump, who worked a shift at a McDonald‘s restaurant in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, while on the campaign trail in 2024, negotiated a groundbreaking, historic, and much-needed peace deal between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. The ceasefire will hopefully halt the brutal war in Gaza that has lasted more than two years, resulting […]

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