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Tariffs, Trade, and the Coming Recession
At the Global Interdependence Center’s 2025 Monetary and Trade Conference last week, Jeremy Schwartz, Global Chief Investment Officer at WisdomTree, and I shared an in-depth discussion on his Behind the Markets podcast. The entire podcast is a valuable listen; our discussion starts at 30:19. I invite readers to listen. Here’s the program description: Host Jeremy Schwartz and… Read more: Tariffs, Trade, and the Coming Recession
Canada and Cannabis
Canada is way ahead of the US in the cannabis industry. The US is still bogged down in fighting yesterday’s war, and the American federal government hasn’t reconciled the issues for banking. Meanwhile, more than half the states are raising money from marijuana, and medical usage is nearly nationwide. Biden failed miserably in amending the… Read more: Canada and Cannabis
Putin — Putler? Readers Respond
Headlines hit with the frequency of missiles. Russia’s war against Ukraine grinds on despite the Trump administration’s efforts at obtaining a peace favorable to Russia’s interests. Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least eight people, wounding more than 70 and smashing buildings in the biggest attack on the Ukrainian capital this… Read more: Putin — Putler? Readers Respond
Putin — Or Is It Putler?
Leon Aron, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Uses of War, offered this assessment of Putin’s motives and US blind spots in an April 15 opinion piece published at POLITICO: The truth that has so far eluded Trump and his administration is that… Read more: Putin — Or Is It Putler?
Tough Times Ahead for County, City Budgets
Tough Times Ahead for County, City Budgets I spoke recently with Johannes Werner of WSLR+Fogartyville 96.5, a listener-supported nonprofit radio station serving Florida’s west coast, where I live. In the interview, we discussed tariff impacts and, as stocks have fallen, how things are different this time in the world of bonds, which are usually regarded… Read more: Tough Times Ahead for County, City Budgets

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