The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meeting yesterday resulted in the Fed raising US interest rates by 0.25%, 25 basis points as bond traders say. This was the direct result of inflation that has risen since Donald Trump took office, when the rate was 3%. Drivers of this inflation are the war in Iran, tariffs…

Canada has received an invitation from the EU to join the body as an associate member. Precisely what that means has yet to be defined, and it will probably involve long and detailed negotiations. But it does make one thing perfectly clear. The United States has damaged its relationship with Canada so badly that the…

The Big Kahunas in Artificial Intelligence have announced that they think AI has a 10% chance of killing all humans.  To prevent that, they have called on the government to create regulations for the industry. One can see the argument for regulation of almost any emerging technology. Humanity did not and does not know all…

The war against Iran to a decidedly bad turn from where the President of the US sits in the last few days. The Houthi rebels in Yemen, who are allied closely with Iran, have taken the Red Sea port of Mocha and some islands in the Bab al-Mandab strait at the southern end of the…

Twenty-five years ago today, some religious zealots proved their love of humanity by hijacking four planes and flying them into buildings or the ground killing around 3,000 people. A great many questions arose, like why did they do it? Or why was the Bush administration asleep at the wheel? And later, why is America invading…