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Chuck Schumer is right, and James Carville is right. They don't want the Democratic Party getting pulled into MAGA's cyclone of ruinous policy. To get to safety, they are reining in the left flank for whom the fight is all. The hotheads don't recognize that bad timing loses battles.

Senate Minority Leader Schumer took a good deal of incoming ...Read more

Years ago, a contest was run for the most boring newspaper headline. The winner was "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative," which appeared in the April 10, 1986, edition of The New York Times. "Worthwhile initiative" is a snooze-worthy phrase. Adding a reference to the quiet and restrained country to the north was seen as draining the last ounce of ...Read more

Boy, do I miss Joe Biden. I especially miss the former president when Donald Trump and his bobbleheads unfairly blame him for everything that's gone wrong since Inauguration Day. Trump has since proven beyond doubt that he can wreck the economy all by his lonesome. And that's not all he's wrecking.

Trump was handed a great economy, "The Envy ...Read more

You can get rich when stocks go up. You can get rich when stocks go down. When stocks go up, people who knew to buy them in advance may win big. If they go down, investors who had the wisdom to "go short" on them -- that is, bet on their decline -- can make a bundle.

Clearly, anyone who can predict what stock prices would do can make ...Read more