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If the EU were only able to issue its own debt, imagine the possibilities…

Yeah, imagine if you gave EU bureaucrats the power to spend an astronomical amount in addition to its power to regulate

“For every $1 the U.S. collects in taxes and tariffs, it will spend $1.33 this year. …

The budget gap is forecast to increase over the course of the next decade as the costs of the country’s debt load, aging population and healthcare obligations outpace tax collections. …

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"The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor" WSJ's @greg_ip writes.

That's right. For the US to boost real wages, the question IMHO is how to make labor more attractive. 1/ wsj.com/economy/jobs/c…

A creative approach to get the young to be financially literate includes getting your teen to be certified to prepare tax returns:
wsj.com/personal-finan…

people are bemused that there's a group standing up for billionaires. What folks don't realize is that once the infrastructure is set up to track your assets, it will be expanded if history is any guide. Get ready to list all your accounts and, um, your baseball card collection. x.com/AxelMerk/statu…

Something a little different: a march for billionaires. wsj.com/lifestyle/bill… x.com/ProBillionaire…

Make the Fed Great Again... @josephsternberg writes in WSJ:
• Emphasize the inflation half of the Fed’s mandate
• Shrink the balance sheet
• Ditch forward guidance
wsj.com/opinion/how-ke…