Stocks can move fast, like the speed of an arrow flying through the air. And if you don’t monitor your charts, you can easily miss a trading opportunity. Last week, I wrote about CSCO stock, one of the stocks filtered in my StockCharts Technical Rank (SCTR) scan. At the time, I was waiting for CSCO’s stock price to pull back ...
China is denying a new report linking it to four bases in Cuba that a think tank says allows the CCP to spy on the U.S. The Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a report last week detailing facilities in Cuba that it claims China may be using to gather signal intelligence (SIGINT) on the U.S. ...
The House passed a once-bipartisan bill on Thursday that authorizes 63 new permanent district judgeships over the next 10 years, 22 of which President-elect Trump can fill during his next term. The White House released a statement earlier this week that President Biden would veto the bill if it came to his desk. The Senate in August passed the ‘Judicial ...
The GOP-controlled House of Representatives passed its annual defense spending bill Wednesday, including a key culture-war caveat: a ban on transgender medical treatments for minor children of U.S. service members. The provision in the 1,800-page bill states that ‘medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization may not be provided to a child under the ...
Erec Smith This blog is part of a series on technology innovation and free expression. In all likelihood, President-elect Trump will repeal Biden’s Executive Orders (EOs) on racial justice (EOs 13985, 13988, 14020, 14021, 14031, 14035, and 14091.) Although repealing these EOs is a large step toward reinstating values once thought concomitant with American culture (equality, freedom of speech, and ...
David J. Bier This is the five-minute spoken summary of my written testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee’s December 10, 2024, hearing, titled “Given the Green Light: Open Border Policies and Threats to Law Enforcement.” Chairman, ranking member, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify. For nearly half a century, the Cato Institute ...
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte painted a grim picture of the world and called on Europe and Canada to ramp up their defense spending Thursday. Rutte made the comments during an address to member countries at a Carnegie Europe conference in Brussels. He issued stark warnings about Russia’s alleged ambitions beyond Ukraine as well as China’s own growing aggression. ‘I’ll ...
With the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad over the weekend and a new White House on the horizon, Iranian resistance leaders and U.S. lawmakers alike have begun expressing hope that Iran will topple its own leadership in a similar fashion, with U.S. help. ‘There’s a real chance for regime change right now, that’s the only way you’re going to stop ...
After speaking with Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., reaffirmed his support for the congresswoman’s nomination to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. ‘Always was a hard YES for @EliseStefanik but it was a pleasure to have a conversation. I support defunding UNRWA for its documented Hamas infiltration and fully look forward to her holding the ...
FBI Director Christopher Wray announced that he will step down from the helm of the federal law enforcement agency ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. ‘After weeks of careful thought, I’ve decided the right thing for the Bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current Administration in January and then step down,’ Wray said during ...