Steve H. Hanke is a Senior Contributing Columnist at Fortune and a Professor of Applied Economics at The Johns Hopkins University. From 1995 to 1996, he was an economic advisor to President Rafael Caldera and is presently Special Adviser on Economic, Monetary, and Energy Affairs in the office of Congressman Antonio Ecarri at the National
A video game posted to the Trump administration’s website — one that closely resembled Tetris — has been taken down after the Tetris Company complained. The White House recently took the unusual step of posting a number of arcade-style video games to its website. One of the more controversial was a game called “Build the Wall,”
Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán says 10 Russian diplomats have been ordered to leave Budapest for taking part in “unacceptable” activities. “This decision protects Hungary’s security and sovereignty,” she wrote on social media, without giving details. Hungary was viewed as Russia’s closest ally in the European Union under Viktor Orbán for years, but since his
Members of Congress are drafting legislation that would create a 20% federal film and TV incentive — with bonuses that could bring it as high as 30% — after President Trump endorsed the idea last week. The bill is expected to be introduced this month, and perhaps as soon as the end of next week,
Kent rested leading wicket-taker Matt Milnes but Mahmud had Derbyshire reeling after the first two balls of an overcast morning. With the floodlights on, conditions looked good for bowling and Mahmud showed the qualities that brought him figures of 6-55 in Bangladesh’s famous Test win over Australia in Darwin last month. His first delivery lifted
The US Army is testing whether it could use reserve drill sergeants and other personnel to quickly expand basic training in the event that a major conflict suddenly needed training pipelines to produce far more soldiers. An experiment called Operation Wildcat Rising put dozens of Army Reserve drill sergeants into a single basic training cycle
