ASIA: India has signed contracts to export about 500,000 tonnes of wheat in recent days, traders said, cashing in on a sharp rally in international prices and signaling a big...

COMMENT: Dear Martin, In addition to the 4 demands listed in your blog “Putin offers peace…” there is a fifth; Ukraine must repeal its “Ukrainian only” law and accept Russian...

In light of recent high inflation, the Federal Reserve has accelerated plans to tighten its monetary policy. Many in the press are reporting that in addition to raising its short-term...

The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the total number of job openings in the economy fell to 11.263 million in January,...

All housing is affordable housing. If developers build cheap housing, the price of all housing except the very most luxurious will fall. Alternatively, and perhaps less obviously, if we build...

Smith’s review on Mandeville’s has an interesting presentation: In ‘The Theory of Moral Sentiments,’ Smith reviews the great systems of moral philosophy and devotes a long chapter to Mandeville, who...

Summary AIER’s Leading Indicators Index posted a surprising 17-point drop in February, more than erasing the solid 13-point gain in January. The Leading Indicators Index dropped to 46 from 63...

With a dry winter like this year and last, we end up getting a lot of questions at Sonoma Ecology Center about the health of our watershed. We’ve heard from...

By Matthew Fiedler, Richard FrankMatthew Fiedler and Richard Frank commented on the 2023 Medicare Part C and D Advance Notice issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)....

By Hayin Kimner, Lorenna Maysonet, Rebecca WinthropIn President Biden’s State of the Union speech last week, he highlighted the importance of addressing the lasting impact of COVID-19 on our nation’s...