Tevi Troy

3 weeks ago | jewishworldreview.com | Tevi Troy |Byron York

SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY JWR UPDATE. IT'S FREE. Just click here. We currently find ourselves in the annual Torah reading cycle of the book of Vayikra, or Leviticus. Many see this as the "plotless" part of the Torah, detailing sacrifices and many other laws that do not have explicit modern applicability.

2 months ago | econlib.org | David Henderson |Tevi Troy |Adam Michel |Richard Hanania

by Tevi Troy, Commentary, 2025. Excerpts:The Obama team held a series of internal meetings to discuss what to do after the loss of the Senate supermajority. Most aides, including Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, suggested that they work with Republicans at this point on a compromise “skinny” plan that Pelosi derisively called “kiddiecare.” Pelosi told Obama, “We’re in the majority. We’ll never have a better majority in your presidency in numbers than we’ve got right now.

Jan 17, 2025 | jewishpolicycenter.org | Tevi Troy

Recently published, The Power and the Money details the sometimes symbiotic, sometimes adversarial web of American business, journalism, and politics. John D. Rockefeller to Elon Musk; Henry Luce to Katherine Graham to Mark Zuckerberg; and Ulysses S. Grant to Joe Biden to president-again Donald Trump – their friendships and conflicts shaped our economy and our politics. Join author Tevi Troy for a look at the history and project the future.

Jan 17, 2025 | denvergazette.com | Tevi Troy

In Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise’s character must train a team of hotshot pilots to take out a facility in an unnamed country with snow-covered mountains. Were they training for a mission in Switzerland? Hollywood was so wary of having any villains identified in this one that pilots from the generic foreign adversary were literally faceless.

Jan 17, 2025 | ivoox.com | Tevi Troy |Kara Swisher

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is starting 2025 with a significant move—a proposed interpretive rule expanding the scope of products regulated under Regulation E. Despite the expectation that CFPB Director Rohit Chopra will be replaced by the next administration, the Bureau continues its active rulemaking and enforcement efforts. In this episode of the IPA Payments Pod, I’m joined by Brian Tate, the IPA’s CEO, to discuss the implications of this proposed rule for the payments industry.