The deadly combination of inflation and food shortages is putting numerous nations on the brink of disaster. Making the situation worse is that countless countries have also taken on enormous amounts of debt since the financial crisis of 2008–09. This segment of What’s Ahead warns that the agency that’s supposed to be the economic doctor … Read more
This episode of What’s Ahead cheerfully examines how taxpayers got a break last week when two bad international tax initiatives that have been pushed hard by the Biden Treasury Department got temporarily derailed. Since taking office, Treasury boss Janet Yellen has been bulldozing two international minimum taxes. Revenue-greedy governments loved the idea of putting the … Read more
Rising interest rates are setting the stage for several crises around the world. This segment of What’s Ahead lays out why there’s a really big one brewing with the Japanese yen. For years Japan has been defying economic laws of gravity: a stagnant economy, government spending and taxes at levels that would make Joe Biden … Read more