It can take as little as 5 minutes online to get prescribed a GLP-1 for weight loss. Why that’s risky.

Since 2009, the Tax Justice Network has published the Financial Secrecy Index. This is a ranking of jurisdictions around the world, based on a thorough assessment of financial transparency and relevant areas of international cooperation. By combining the overall secrecy score with a global scale weight, the ranking reflects the share of global financial secrecy…

China surprised everyone Tuesday night by acknowledging GDP growth well below 5 percent. The official rate is 4.3 percent for the second quarter and 4.7 percent for the first half, to just over $10.1 trillion. More interesting than most such announcements, but not especially important. The important question is whether the true situation is somewhat worse than…

Some independent restaurants are throwing out all their bagged lettuce, while others have found ways to keep serving customers their leafy greens.

Frustrated at the collapse of his poorly-considered Memorandum of Understanding with Iran, President Trump has declared the US will reimpose its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and begin charging a 20 percent fee for passage. It’s genuinely astonishing for the government of the United States to blithely repudiate one of its most important contributions to international order. The US has…

Thursday, March 12, 2026 Efforts to Stop the Sale of Thousands of Unauthorized E-Cigarette Products New tobacco product must first be approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before being sold in the United States. Despite this requirement, there are thousands of unapproved e-cigarette products and devices being sold. We learn about this issue…