Stakeholder democracy

March 29, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Bessent’s beef

Featured image Treasury Secretary Bessent took issue in a big way with a story published by the Financial Times last week (behind the FT paywall). I found his beef of interest: By publishing this explicitly false story, the @FT has officially become tabloid trash for market participants. Despite my direct, on-the-record denial of ever having advocated, explored, or espoused the idea that Chancellor-Bank of England statute serving as a prototype for a »
September 7, 2025 — Bill Glahn

Democrats discover border “enforcement”

Featured image But enforcement of what, exactly? From The Hill newspaper, Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.), whose district includes 180 miles of the southern border, said Democrats are ready to commit to immigration enforcement as part of an agreement to provide a pathway to citizenship. Ah, the old “amnesty first, enforcement never” gambit. And what is the nature of this “enforcement,” which will never happen? Rep. Vasquez explains, So yes, border security has »
September 3, 2025 — Bill Glahn

Angela M has “No Ragrets”

Featured image From the BBC, Migrant crisis: How Europe went from Merkel’s ‘We can do it’ ten years ago to pulling up the drawbridge. The BBC recalls the good-old-days of 2015, This was August 2015 and Europe was witnessing the greatest movement in population since the end of the Second World War. More than a million people would arrive in the EU over the next few months driven by violence in Syria, »
September 3, 2025 — Bill Glahn

Who is America?

Featured image I take on the most critical question facing the United States today: for whose benefit is the nation being governed? Who should it be? For my answer, I go back to the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, which begins with the famous three words, “We the People.” Why was “America” created? Why does America exist? Who is included in “we”? Again, I fall back on the phrase, secure the Blessings »