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Economics
When Dollars Become Weapons: How mBridge Became the Alternative to American Financial Power
by Thomas Karat | Jan 27, 2026 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The next time you wire money internationally, consider this: someone in Washington or Brussels can decide you don't get to complete that transaction. Not because you broke any law. Not because a court found you guilty of anything. But because a U.S. Treasury...
TGIF: Inept Con Man in the White House
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 23, 2026 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Trump is hardly the first con man in the White House, but he is by far the most flagrant, and his scale is gargantuan. He's also rather inept. His latest confession came in a recent message to Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store: Considering your Country decided...
Trump’s Tariffs Made His Farm Bailouts Inevitable
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 22, 2026 | Economics, Featured Articles
In the comic theater of American politics, few spectacles are as reliably absurd as the utopian promises of protectionism. Donald Trump's tariffs, hailed by their proponents as a bold strike against foreign exploitation, have instead proven to be a blunt instrument of...
Conservatives Don’t Believe in Free Markets
by Patrick Carroll | Jan 20, 2026 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
One of the positions that conservatives pride themselves on most is their dedication to free markets. They extol the virtues of the free market in pamphlets and speeches, and they regularly denounce the idea of government control. A recent post on Twitter/X from Nikki...
The Year Ahead in Sino-American Relations
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 8, 2026 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
From trade frictions to security flashpoints, the new year ahead promises a mix of continuity and potential volatility in U.S.-China relations. While Beijing’s growth in relative power—economic, technological, and military—continues, it is not aimed at “taking over...
TGIF: Warm Individualism or Cold Collectivism?
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 2, 2026 | Economics, History, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani promises to "replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism." Funny that he chose those words. In Europe, where collectivist anti-fossil-fuels "green" policies have been enacted in the...
Marx Corrected
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 15, 2025 | Blog, Economics, Justice, Libertarianism
From each according to his freely undertaken contribution to the creation of wealth. To each according to the same.









