A new executive order on regenerative agriculture might seem to suggest that US President Donald Trump’s administration wants to help American farmers. But a closer look at the order and other recent developments reveals a familiar pattern: an unhappy public gets reassuring words, while corporate interests receive tangible support.
Please enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser or access the information through the links provided below. June 30, 2026 Agencies release list of distressed or underserved nonmetropolitan middle-income geographies Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of…
For their valuable comments, we thank seminar participants and attendees at Saint Mary’s University, St. Francis Xavier University, the 2024 Atlantic Canadian Economic Conference, and the 2023 Labor Economics Special Issue Contributors Workshop and Conference at the Ohio State University. We are grateful to Alex Hollingsworth for helpful comments. We thank Matthew McKitrick and Theresa…
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Thursday, April 23, 2026 America’s Cybersecurity Risks and How GAO Is Helping to Address Them On this special episode of the Watchdog Report podcast, we discuss America’s cybersecurity risks, as well as GAO’s role in auditing and improving defenses against them. Our guest is Nick Marinos, GAO’s managing director of our Information Technology and Cybersecurity…
Friday, December 12, 2025 FDA’s Efforts to Recall Faulty Medical Devices Limited by Insufficient Staffing The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible foroverseeing the safety of medical devices sold in the U.S. and issuingrecalls when they’re found to be unsafe. But recent headlines andhigh-profile lawsuits have drawn attention to the effectiveness of FDA’sefforts. We’ll…
Summary Date of meeting: 4 June 2026 Item 1: Welcome, introductions and context The Chair introduced the first RTGS CHAPS Industry Forum. This group will meet regularly to provide industry input on a range of strategic issues relating to both the live operation and change roadmap for the RTGS and CHAPS services operated by the…
CAMBRIDGE—June 25 was a consequential day for American agriculture. In the morning, the US Supreme Court—encouraged by President Donald Trump’s administration—ruled (7–2) that a federal pesticide labeling law precludes state-level lawsuits against the chemical giant Monsanto over its failure to warn users about the cancer risks associated with its weed killer, Roundup. In the afternoon, Trump signed an executive order titled “Advancing Regenerative Agriculture and Strengthening American Farm Resilience,” supposedly to ensure that food in the United States is the “healthiest, most abundant, and most affordable in the world.”