Submitted by Gary Galles via The Mises Institute,
Recently, Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen wrote in the Washington Post of “The most important phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance” — “with liberty and justice for all.”
A year after skipping the event for lack of support, writing that he "looks forward to returning next year, as President of the United States," President Trump is due to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this morning.
Trump's statement last year...
In response to reports of the coincidental geographical location to one of George Soros' largest funded activist groups, the Democratic mega-donor has felt it necessary to make a statement denying he is funding protests at GOP lawmakers’ town hall meetings.
As we noted yesterday, Jimmy Dahman, a former field organizer for the Clinton campaign in Iowa, founded the Town Hall Project. Dahman claimed on CNN that the town hall events are "all organic and happening at the grassroots level."
After nearly a week of eerie silence in which Trump ignored the topic of "leaks" to the press by various US agencies, most notably the FBI, in his first tweets of the day the president reverted to one of his biggest peeves in recent weeks, namely how the "enemy" press continues to get inside scoops into his administration, and tore into the Federal Bureau of Investigations, following a provocative report from CNN which cited "unnamed sources" according to whom the White House tried to urge the FBI to dispute accounts of regular contact between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and Russia
By Mark Cudmore, a former FX trader who writes for Bloomberg
Mnuchin’s Dose of Reality Yet to Bite
Steven Mnuchin’s dose of reality for investors in relation to the fiscal stimulus has triggered a disinflationary theme to markets that will impact many assets classes.
Yesterday, I wrote that Trump’s speech to congress on Tuesday may mark a capitulation point for reflation trades. It appears that Mnuchin has tried to pre-empt him.