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When the Fed chairman cautiously suggests that the American central bankers are not sure what they are going to do, it is because they cannot do what they say they want to do.

The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) was created not to be just another think tank but rather a “do tank” providing the freedom movement with what its founders called “missing ingredients for success.”

Several Democratic presidential candidates want the federal government to require periodic “stress tests” on large banks to ensure they can handle potential economic blows from climate change.

FIRE’s Campus Due Process Litigation Tracker is a searchable database of Title IX litigation.

University of Michigan Eliminates Its "Bias Response Teams"

New York state Supreme Court Justice Barry Ostrager dismissed a lawsuit brought by state Attorney General (AG) Letitia James against ExxonMobil.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a nonprofit public policy organization with a mission to promote both freedom and fairness by making good policy into smart politics.

The University of California announced the system’s endowment and its pension fund are going “fossil-free.”

The Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression was composed by the University of Chicago to set a standard for protecting freedom of speech.

The average cost for an automobile insurance policy in Detroit is more than $5,000 per year.

‘Fiduciaries have a moral obligation — and, in some cases, a legal obligation — to avoid sustainable investment practices’

Restore Louisiana, a state program funded through the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development, is offering pay up to $200,000 to purchase homes from people living in areas that have been repeatedly flooded.

Portfolio managers to invest their clients money based on sustainable investment criteria may cost their clients money and be violating their fiduciary duties.

Two Michigan brothers potentially face nearly three-quarters of million dollars in fines for removing hundreds of trees from their property without the permission of Canton Township.

Bank of the West decision to divest itself from all businesses involved in the production, exploration, and distribution of coal, oil, and natural gas has angered elected officials in Wyoming and Colorado.

President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) scrapping his predecessor’s ocean policy and replacing it with one de-emphasizing federal bureaucratic control of coastal waterways and adjacent lands.

Two cases challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) may require the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve conflicts between earlier decisions reached by judges in lower courts.

Cambridge University rejected anti-fossil fuel activists demands the University divest its endowment of fossil fuel related companies.

The Federal Reserve and Trump administration agencies will solicit public comments on a proposed change to the Volcker Rule, a provision of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, commonly referred to as “Dodd-Frank.”

The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development published a magisterial teaching calling for governments to increase financial regulation.

The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a Senate-approved bill to ease federal restrictions on banks and reduce the cost of regulatory compliance.

Harvard University lost at least $1 billion dollars of its endowment on high-risk, sustainable, natural resource investments, according to a recent report in Bloomberg Businessweek.

People are losing their homes to local governments under a Federal clean energy loan program.

Review of In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance, by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins (Ayn Rand Institute, 2017), 250 pages, ISBN-13 978-0996010115, $14.93 on Amazon.com.