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a pretty low lying area. >> that storm surge theyre preparing for, what exactly might that look like when it comes to the businesses and the homes in that area? >> reporter: well, to give you a sense of howe things look where we are right now, were at a park thats surrounded by three bays, the old tampa bay, the tampa bay and then that third bay. what theyre worried about, especially the folks in pinellas county, that storm surge is going to flood things no matter what. even if that fo...

you still fit in them. unbelievable. >> sean: it is pink and i am throwing at eight at you. >> laura: krav maga, hannity is down to a 31-inch waist. all right, awesome show. well pick it up or you left off. i am learning from her this is "the ingraham angle" from washington. the senate psych out. that is the focus of tonights angle. >> now it looks like as a republican scale back the u.s. senate races in play. >> extended candidates might ruin the republican chances for retaking the ch...

March was a bad month for the Dodd-Frank Act. We now know that Dodd-Frank, passed in the wake of the 2007–2008 banking crisis, doesn’t prevent bank runs. Neither do post–2008 arrangements tell depositors whether large deposits are safe or should be withdrawn with a swipe on a smartphone. This time, uninsured deposits were bailed out. But in testimony to the Senate Finance Committee, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen couldn’t say what would happen to uninsured deposits at other regional ban...

As regular as the turn of the seasons, each January sees Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, publish a lengthy letter on the state of the world and its implications for finance and investors. This year, January turned to February, and still no letter. Instead, February saw Tim Buckley, CEO of Vanguard, global number-two asset manager, give a groundbreaking interview explaining Vanguard’s decision late last year to quit the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZA...

P>Politicians and climate activists portray net zero climate policies as a win–win: good for the planet, good for the economy. A recent example is “Mission Zero,” a supposedly independent review of Britain’s net zero target led by the former minister who signed net zero into law. “Net zero is the economic opportunity of the 21st century,” it breathlessly proclaims. “We must act decisively to seize the opportunities in a global race.” Economics isn’t about races or moon shot...

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) occurred just days after Congress passed the Braun-Barr resolution, which overturns the Biden administration’s “Prudence and Loyalty” rule and its encouragement of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing by pension managers under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The timing could hardly be more instructive. The Prudence and Loyalty rule, the White House had recently argued in its defense, “reflects what successf...

Fed-speak, Alan Greenspan once explained, was about practicing the art of constructive ambiguity. Testifying to Congress as Fed chairman, Greenspan would resolve a sentence in a deliberately obscure way that made it incomprehensible, “but nobody was quite sure I wasn’t saying something profound when I wasn’t.” 

Repurposed it, completely unconstitutionally. it would be better for congress to stand up on its hind legs and reassert its power over the purse and its constraints on the executive rather than trying and impeach. the last time republicans decided to impeach someone on pretty flimsy pretext, an impeachment that was clearly disproportionate was over monica lewinsky. that didnt go so well for the republicans who managed to lose congressional seats in the midterm of a second term of a president. ha...

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I mean, almost by the hour. >> reporter: no question about it. the presidents getting briefed, as you mentioned a moment ago by top national security officials this morning, as the entire world faces this agonizing weight with situations developing on parallel tracks. on one hand, the form of diplomacy, emmanuel macron on the two sides, trying to arrange a meeting between putin and biden. youve got secretary of state tony blinken scheduled to meet sergey lavrov, his russian counterpart later in ...