Janet Yellen gets low marks from most financial experts for her term as Treasury Secretary. The Treasury Secretary’s primary role is managing U.S. debt issuance, determining the mix of loan terms and debt structures to minimize interest costs. During the pandemic, interest rates were very low—below 1 percent in most instances—and instead of locking in […]
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a controversial third term on Friday, despite unresolved disputes over the July presidential election and international pressure for him to step down. “The power granted to me by the Constitution has not been given to me by a foreign government or a gringo government,” Maduro declared in […]
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I have a short essay with this title in the Harvard Law Review Forum, responding to the Harvard Law Review’s publication of Evelyn Douek & Genevieve Lakier’s excellent new article, Lochner.com? I actually agree with much of what Douek & Lakier say, but offer a somewhat different perspective on the matter. Here’s the Introduction; I’ll likely […]
On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump will join Grover Cleveland as one of only two American presidents to serve nonconsecutive terms. Like Cleveland, Trump won his second election due largely to the fact that his predecessor presided over a poor economy. But Trump does not seem to recognize this, treating his victory as a sweeping […]
Ironically, two seemingly unrelated articles in today’s New York Times reflect much of what is wrong with the United States, at least in an economic sense. One op-ed, titled “The Tragedy of Joe Biden,” is by Peter Coy, a regular columnist for the Times. The other one, titled “A Big Idea to Solve America’s Immigration […]
For the last decade or so, it has sometimes seemed as if Hollywood has lost its grandest ambition—not merely to entertain, provoke, or create art, but to pursue and portray America’s national myths, to reflect the nation back on itself in new and revelatory ways. In 2024, however, we got two such attempts. The first […]
From Wednesday’s decision by Manhattan trial judge Hasa Kingo in C.D. v. City of New York: Petitioner C.D. (“Petitioner”), as administrator of the estate of C.L. (“Decedent”) … requests permission to proceed under a pseudonym and to seal this proceeding, citing the sensitive nature of the circumstances and the potential for undue harm to Decedent’s […]
From yesterday’s N.Y. intermediate appellate court decision in Smartmatic USA Corp. v. Fox Corp., by Judges Peter Moulton, Barbara Kapnick, Saliann Scarpulla, Manuel Mendez, and Kelly O’Neill Levy: In our prior decision in this matter, we modified the motion court’s order to, among other things, dismiss the causes of action asserted against Fox Corporation without […]