Author: Richard A Reagan

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a development and trade strategy that was first proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013. The strategy identifies several vital trade and investment corridors and looks to build them up through investments in infrastructure. The initiative is obviously China-centric, focused on trade corridors into and out of China. […]

It should probably come as no surprise that New Zealand’s government is engaging in hypocrisy of the highest order. Most governments do the same thing. But the hypocrisy of bleeding heart leftists who claim to have compassion for innocents turning around and subjecting other innocents to injustice is particularly galling and deserves a sound rebuke. […]

The Federal Open Market Committee voted last week to keep its target federal funds rate steady at 2.25 to 2.50%. Even more importantly, the FOMC voted to stop the Fed’s winding down of its balance sheet at the end of September of this year. And as of May of this year the Fed will halve […]

With online retailers such as Amazon continuing to grow exponentially, to many people the age of e-commerce is finally here. It’s been over two decades since most people were introduced to eBay, Amazon, and online shopping, but the real growth has occurred in just the past few years. In just the past five years e-commerce […]

The crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 earlier this month has raised significant questions about the reliability of the aircraft. The aircraft in question, the second MAX 8 to crash within 5 months, was delivered to Ethiopian on November 15, 2018, meaning that it had seen less than four months of service. A […]

Headlines last week were full of the news that wealthy, privileged parents had engaged in bribery to gain admission for their children to colleges they otherwise would have had difficulty getting into. Among those indicted was Lori Loughlin, known to millions of Americans as Aunt Becky on Full House. While the reaction to the scandal […]

Many Americans watch their diets closely, trying to ensure that they get the right amount of nutrients. Those who are looking to lose weight often try to minimize their fat intake, while those who pursue alternative diets such as the ketogenic diet try to minimize their carbohydrate intake. But aside from bodybuilders, weightlifters, and other […]

While stock markets have yet to decide when they’re going to take their plunge, data from many other sectors of the economy continue to indicate that a slowdown is coming, if it hasn’t arrived already. Chief among those is the latest jobs report, which showed that the economy only added 20,000 jobs in February. That […]

Late last year the CFO of Chinese telecommunications and electronics company Huawei was detained in Canada at the United States’ request. Meng Wangzhou, the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, was accused of violating US sanctions against Iran. She currently remains free on bail in Canada awaiting the resolution of her case, with the United […]

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recently stated that she is not in favor of pushing the impeachment of President Trump. According to her, “Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. […]