Month: May 2022

China’s C919 Airliner: The Good News and the (Mostly) Bad News

Commentary In mid-May, the first C919 intended for the first airline customer had its first flight. This is good news for China’s dream of becoming a world-class builder of passenger jets. The bad news is, it’s going to be expensive. A C919 could cost as much as an Airbus A320 or a Boeing 737. That’s…


Monkeypox Was a Table-Top Simulation Only Last Year

Commentary Elite media outlets around the world are on red alert over the world’s first-ever global outbreak of Monkeypox in mid-May 2022—just one year after an international biosecurity conference in Munich held a simulation of a “global pandemic involving an unusual strain of Monkeypox” beginning in mid-May 2022. Monkeypox was first identified in 1958, but there’s never…


Biden Unveils New Indo-Pacific Pact; Retirement: How to Deal With Market Downturn | NTD Business

President Biden announcing a potential new economic strategy for allies in and around Asia. We talk to an economist for analysis. Starbucks leaving Russia after 15 years. It’s the latest retailer to exit over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. New business ideas could come from many places, even a bad-tasting beer. We hear from one man who set…


US Companies Damaged by China’s ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy

Commentary Beijing’s ongoing “zero-COVID” campaign is slowing both the Chinese and global economies, causing supply chain disruptions felt around the world. The harsh pandemic measures are also damaging U.S. companies in China. “Conditions in China are such that we have virtually no ability to predict our performance in China in the back half of the…


Waltz of the Sirens, by Alma Deutscher

Waltz of the Sirens (Sirenenklänge Walzer), composed by Alma Deutscher, performed at Carnegie Hall in December 2019. Dame Jane Glover conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Transmission presented by Viking. Concert presented by the Packard Humanities Institute and Columbia Artists. Credit: Website: www.almadeutscher.com – Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@EpochTV Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/epochtv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpochTVus Gab: https://gab.com/EpochTV Telegram: https://t.me/EpochTV *…


How Money Printing Destroyed Argentina and Can Destroy Others

Commentary The most dangerous words in monetary policy and economics are “this time is different.” The big mistake of politicians in Argentina is to believe that inflation is multi-causal and that everything is solved with increasing doses of interventionism. The consumer price index in Argentina experienced a year-on-year rise of 58 percent in April 2022,…


Creator of ‘Star Wars’ X-Wing and Death Star Dies at 90

Colin Cantwell, the man who designed the spacecraft in the “Star Wars” films, has died. He was 90. The Hollywood Reporter reported Sunday that Sierra Dall, Cantwell’s partner, confirmed that he died at his home in Colorado on Saturday. Cantwell designed the prototypes for the X-wing Starfighter, TIE fighter and Death Star. He also worked…


Hillary Clinton Approved Trump-Russia Leak to Media; The Big Lie About Trump and Charlottesville | Larry Elder LIVE

Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager, Robby Mook, bracingly testified that Clinton herself approved the campaign proposal to leak the back-channel Trump smear to the media, which enabled DOJ special counsel John Durham to do exactly what he had hoped to do: place Hillary Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann’s alleged false statement in a larger context of…


LIVE at 5 PM ET: Hillary Clinton Approved Trump-Russia Leak to Media; The Big Lie About Trump and Charlottesville | Larry Elder LIVE

Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager, Robby Mook, bracingly testified that Clinton herself approved the campaign proposal to leak the back-channel Trump smear to the media, which enabled DOJ special counsel John Durham to do exactly what he had hoped to do: place Hillary Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann’s alleged false statement in a larger context of…


Abbott CEO Apologizes for Baby Formula Shortages; Experts Weigh in on Crisis

Abbott Laboratories CEO Robert Ford apologized for the nationwide baby food formula shortages in a Washington Post op-ed on May 21. “And yes, we take great pride in manufacturing nutrition and formula to feed America’s infants, including our most vulnerable,” Ford wrote. “But the past few months have distressed us as they have you, and so…