Hooray for the Dot Plot!
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal reports today that Fed officials are increasingly nervous about the “dot plot” they release periodically. The dot plot shows how each member of the FOMC projects interest rates over the next few years, with one dot for each member. Here’s a…
“Senior US Officials” Hate It When the Public Knows What They Know
Airbus via the Center for Strategic and International Studies Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Please break out your tiny violins for Trump officials who hate the fact that “unofficial” reports of North Korea’s missile activity are showing up in their newspapers: Senior U.S. officials involved in the negotiations with North…
Hate Crimes Are More Important Than a Few Rich Kids Getting Into Harvard
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. David Leonhardt: The president of the United States suggested last week that his political supporters might resort to violence if they didn’t get their way. The statement didn’t even get that much attention. I’m guessing you heard a lot more about the college-admissions scandal than…
Dems Ask FBI to Investigate Massage Parlor Owner Who Was Selling Access to Trump
Yang, right, attends the 2016 Republican National Convention. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Top Democrats on four congressional committees have asked the FBI investigate the activities of Cindy Yang, the massage parlor owner who offered to sell Chinese business executives access to President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. In a letter…
Chart of the Day: CEO Pay Is Still Growing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal reports that CEO pay was up yet again last year. Here’s the chart: Big-company CEOs have seen a median pay raise of about 40 percent since 2010. Ordinary workers have seen a pay raise of 20 percent. Adjusted for inflation, that’s…
Elizabeth Warren Is Your Favorite Candidate Right Now
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here are the results of my spur-of-the-moment survey from Sunday. It got about 1,700 responses. I’m a little surprised that so many of you are swooning over Pete Buttigieg, but I expect that will change before long. I also suspect that Elizabeth Warren will lose…