As we’ve said and written so many times, and as history confirms century after century, and regime after regime, desperate (i.e., debt-cornered) nations do desperate things. And this, by the way, ...

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s GDPNow model projection for real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2025 (Q1 2025) is now showing a slump to -1.5 percent. This marks a significant downward ...