Should Transgender Treatments Be Available to Minors?
Editor’s note: In this Future View, students discuss gender dysphoria and “gender transition” procedures for children under 18. Next week we’ll ask, “The state police are investigating anti-Semitic threats at Cornell, while Jewish students at NYU were advised to hide in the library as a mob surged onto campus. Years of campus agitation against Israel […]
The Federal Reserve at War
Monetary policy officials are hinting to financial markets that the Federal Reserve will stop raising interest rates—even as the Fed signals that it is too early to declare victory over inflation. Wary investors can only speculate, while market analysts are happy to guess the Fed’s next move. Before the Fed announces its latest interest-rate decision […]
Exeter City 2-3 Middlesbrough: Boro survive scare to make Carabao Cup quarter-finals
Emmanuel Latte Lath’s late penalty finally broke Exeter’s resistance Championship side Middlesbrough reached the Carabao Cup quarter-finals after a thrilling win at League One Exeter. Ryan Trevitt’s excellent opener put the underdogs ahead as he blasted into the top corner from the edge of the box. But Morgan Rogers’ curling effort drew Boro level after […]
Biden Has a Spending Choice: Guns or Butter
The last American President who tried to finance a war along with a new Great Society was Lyndon Johnson. It ended in inflation and retreat in Vietnam. President Biden now wants Congress to help allies win two wars abroad, and deter a third over Taiwan, yet he wants to continue spending on everything as if […]
A Big Legal Defeat for the Realtors
The National Association of Realtors has objected to our editorials challenging its anti-competitive business model, but what do you know. On Tuesday a federal jury found the Realtors liable under U.S. antitrust laws for conspiring to fix prices in the class-action case Burnett v. NAR. Missouri home sellers challenged a Realtor rule requiring seller agents […]
Ken Griffin vs. the IRS
Ken Griffin isn’t giving up on his fight to improve the Internal Revenue Service’s privacy protections, and all American taxpayers could benefit if the Citadel CEO wins. Late last week Mr. Griffin filed an amended version of his lawsuit against the tax agency for the “unlawful disclosure” of his confidential tax information. The hedge fund […]
The Yield of Japan’s Bad Policies
The Bank of Japan marked Halloween on Tuesday by announcing that Frankenstein’s monster isn’t dead yet. We refer to the Tokyo central bank’s policy in recent years of controlling longer-term interest rates, which Governor Kazuo Ueda this week put on life support without putting it in the grave. The yield-curve-control policy since 2016 has attempted […]
Home-school Boom
The Washington Post reports on the flight from public schools. Source link
The Second Person to Get a Pig Heart Transplant Just Died
Lawrence Faucette, the 58-year-old patient with terminal heart disease who was the second person to receive a genetically engineered pig heart, died on October 30, according to a statement from the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, where the transplant was performed. Faucette received the transplant on September 20 and lived for six weeks—less […]
Middle East War Becomes a European Crisis
London A war in the Middle East is a foreign-policy crisis for the U.S., but it is a domestic crisis for Europe. The streets of London, Paris and Berlin are blocked by marchers calling for jihad. In Brussels, the European Union’s capital, an international soccer match was halted after a Tunisian asylum seeker shot two […]