Top Reads from the Fiscal Times

How to Build a $400 Billion F-35 that Doesn’t Fly The Pentagon’s embattled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter continues to be plagued with so many problems that it can’t even pass the most basic requirements needed to fly in combat, despite soaring roughly $170 billion over budget.  As the most expensive… How ISIS Recruiters Target U.S. Immigrants In what is starting to seem like a slow, steady drip of ‘foreign fighter’ cases, six U.S. residents of Bosnian origin were arrested in early February and charged with… Interest Rate Anticipation Rattles the Markets The Federal Reserve in the coming week may finally signal it is on a course to raise interest rates for the first time in nine years. Anticipation of a change in its more… Hillary Clinton’s 5 Big Privacy Issues (Before the Emails) Back in April of 2007, when she was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination for the first time, then-Senator Hillary Clinton lashed out at the secrecy of the… Cinderella Waved Her Magic Wand on Slew of Retailers With the new Cinderella live-action movie version opening nationwide today, Disney is hoping to recreate the frenzy that has surrounded Frozen in recent years. The movie…