by Dick Hall-Sizemore

Chicken Tacos, Please

Many Virginians, including this writer, have been warily following the financial markets and their investment portfolios as President Trump’s tariff policies change almost daily, seemingly on a whim sometimes. They should be encouraged by a term coined, as reported by the New York Times, on Wall Street to describe these wild fluctuations in policy and the markets — the TACO trade, as in Trump Always Chickens Out.

Turnabout

A current article lends credence to the frequent lament on Bacon’s Rebellion regarding what is regarded as the overwhelming liberal bent of university faculty. The source of the article may surprise some — the Atlantic.

The author describes efforts by Johns Hopkins University and leading institutions of higher education to attract conservative scholars. Some might call it DEI for conservatives.