Otherweb Archive - Opinion - Business

• Defaming businesses doesn’t protect consumers
• Tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico are still a terrible idea
• The Plot to Destroy the CFPB
• Judicial Watch Sues USAID for Records on Ukraine Aid Waste, Fraud and Abuse - Judicial Watch
• Trump can’t fulfil his promise to fix the economy, so he’s blaming workers instead
• SEC halts fraud prosecution of Chinese crypto bro whose purchases enriched Trump
• DOGE Is in the Constitution
• What Trump can Learn from McKinley's Tariffs
• Dear Prudence: Our neighborhood has gotten out of control. What can we do?
• Interest rates are falling—thank government spending cuts for that
• The State Department has saved $60 billion after cutting over 4,000 ongoing grants worth nearly $4.4 billion, according to an internal memo
• U.S. Agency for International Development allows ousted employees 15 minutes to retrieve personal items from headquarters
• Restoring Trust in Public Health: Preventing Waste And Fraud In National Emergency Assistance
• Unmasking How ‘Foreign Aid Undermined US Interests’
• I’m a Workplace Expert. I Have Some Advice for Fired Federal Workers.
• Veronique de Rugy: If Trump was elected with a specific mandate, it was to lower prices. Today’s rising inflation isn’t his fault
• Are Building Reforms Too Little, Too Late? - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Senate Republicans defeat attempt to undo Trump’s day-one national emergency declaration
• Senate Democrats block resolution to reverse Biden-era offshore oil and gas regulations
• House DOGE Panel To Examine How Foreign Aid Spreads ‘Woke Agenda’
• Democrats are ignoring the fact that the federal government has faced much lower layoffs than the private sector in recent years
• Joann Fabrics to go out of business after filing for bankruptcy for second time in a year
• Maybe I’m Old-Fashioned, but the DOGE Kids Should Probably Not Be Able to Override the Secretary of State
• Britain’s embattled markets are an investment opportunity
• "Want a Hot Shower? Call Your Congressman," But Not Just to Support a CRA Resolution.
• USDA layoffs are wasting public money and decimating popular programs
• The Federal Reserve Killed The Penny. Is MAGA Next?
• Zelensky to sign new mineral deal with U.S. this week, Trump says
• How to bring the federal bureaucracy to its knees: Ask them what they did last week
• Senate Republicans are rallying against a Democrat effort to undo Trump’s national emergency declaration
• Fresh starts on starter homes
• Canada is pulling funds from groups still searching for alleged remains buried at residential schools funded by Catholics and other Christians
• "Grok Briefly Censored Criticism of Musk and Trump"
• Starmer’s Brexit betrayal could spark another UK energy crisis
• Housing Will Not Solve Homelessness
• I live in D.C., D.C., Virginia, and D.C., and today was a great day. I went to the gym and it looked abandoned. I actually was able to get on all the equipment I wanted
• Energy Secretary Chris Wright spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference about Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ philosophy
• The True Victims of Woke Corporations - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Subprime Redux: Commercial Real Estate Bond Distress Hits Another Record High
• External Revenue Or Protectionism: A Tariff Can’t Be Both
• Inn and out — NYC migrant hotels finally closing
• The USAID Nightmare Continues - Judicial Watch
• Does Trump want lower gas prices or oil sanctions on Iran?
• The U.S. Agency for International Development is cutting 1,600 jobs in the United States
• Bill would penalize banks if they refuse to offer services to law-abiding customers
• Avoiding Economic Pseudo-Science – Reuven Brenner
• Montana Cowboys, Adam Smith, and Trump
• West Midlands police tell Isabel Vaughan-Spruce she had to leave a public area where she was
• "Cried about Elon some more": Trump mocks federal workers using "SpongeBob SquarePants" meme
• White House special envoy Steve Witkoff says a deal is close to being made where the U.S. will secure mineral rights in Ukraine in exchange for security assistance
• North America’s largest solar plant is taking shape. Yep, in Canada.
• Heastie has a better idea than Hochul’s lame $3B inflation ‘refund’ checks
• Purged by Trump: A National Science Foundation worker speaks out
• How to solve the house price conundrum? Look no further than Gwynedd in Wales
• How USAID squandered billions in Haiti and around the globe
• To cut government spending, Trump targets pocket change
• Defamation/Impersonation Campaign as RICO Violation (with $9M in RICO Trebled Damages)
• An obscure group of consultants is helping to drive up U.S. electricity rates
• Climate groups sue over Trump's orders to expand offshore drilling
• Trump’s executive order on wind turbines was a major leap forward, but the devil is in the details
• Trump blocked U.S. funding for UN Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) again. Here's why
• White House senior adviser Stephen Miller spoke about the idea of sending Americans 'dividend checks' from the Department of Government Efficiency
• Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations is considered the first great work in modern economics
• President Trump says he's open to a plan to pay a 'DOGE dividend' to taxpayers
• Vice President JD Vance says the U.S. must stop spending the American people’s money on garbage
• This week the government announced plans to build 1.5 million new homes by 2029
• How to recover from debanking
• In January, eggs were scarce and expensive; now they're even pricier
• The Swamp is Slowly Draining
• The climate crisis is a cost of living issue for Australia. My generation will be the first to pay for it | Anjali Sharma
• Trump says his administration is 'just getting started' after saving $55 billion
• "They're not working": Trump accuses federal workings of slacking after he spent the day golfing
• About 6,000 IRS employees will be laid off on Thursday, The New York Times reports
• It’s time for a flat tax
• DOGE Says $4.7 Trillion In Treasury Payments Missing Code To Trace Where Money Went
• The RBA is cutting interest rates and unemployment is at historic lows. This is not supposed to be happening | | Greg Jericho
• Why is Spain’s economy booming? Thanks to migration – which proves xenophobia doesn’t pay | María Ramírez
• Sen. Joni Ernst wants to cut former presidents' pensions if they make $400,000 a year
• The essence of the currency exchange rate is the relative purchasing power of various monies
• Trump Closed the Door on Cheap Chinese Imports. Temu Found an Open Window. - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• I returned to hospitality work as a middle-aged woman – here’s what it taught me | Beth Knights
• The madness of Ed Miliband’s fracking ban
• I run a growing media company with 11 American employees. Yet I’ve never set foot in the U.S
• Reciprocity is a misguided response to U.S. economic strength
• This week's Rent Free takes a look at the regulatory regime holding back L.A.'s wildfire rebuilding efforts
• CDC staffers describe an increasingly chaotic agency as layoffs begin
• Trump Vowed to Clean Up Washington, Then His Team Hired a Man Who Pushed a Scam the IRS Called the “Worst of the Worst”
• This week's Good Job with Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir
• I knew I was getting laid off when I saw the faces of my manager and HR rep
• A tale of two tax plans
• Pay Off Your Student Loans… Without Putting Your Life on Hiatus
• RBA reduces interest rates, but don’t hold your breath for too much more this year | Nicki Hutley
• Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes
• Trump’s new energy secretary slams Net Zero 2050 as a ‘sinister goal’
• Help! My Son Is Extorting Me for Money—Just Like His Mother.
• The Key to a Stronger Economy? It’s Housing, Stupid.
• The media loves negative trends, but America keeps moving in the right direction
• The handoff to Trump’s second term includes a dismal Bidenomics inheritance of slowing growth, rising inflation, and a frustrated citizenry
• Democrats Prepare for the Big House
• The Myth of Income Inequality