New Yorker: In Washington, though, Pompeo has managed to maintain Trump’s confidence while remaining on speaking terms with a foreign-policy establishment that is deeply unsettled by the President. “He’s in a sense become the real adult in the room,” Ian Bremmer, the...
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If Deficits Are This Huge Now, What Happens When the Recession Hits?
The Treasury Department released new budget deficit numbers this week, and with two months still to go in the fiscal year, 2019's budget deficit is the highest its been since the US was still being flooded with fiscal stimulus dollars back in 2012. As of July 2019,...
New York Times Persists in Russia Election Hacking Conspiracy Theory
“Russia Targeted Election Systems in All 50 States, Report Finds”, read the headline of a New York Times article published on July 25, 2019. In it, the Times asserted as fact that, during the 2016 US presidential election season, the Russian government attempted to...
This Is Your Brain on Government Intervention (in the War on Drugs)
Ludwig von Mises, in his Critique of Interventionism, stated that one government intervention in the market creates unintended consequences, which inevitably justifies the next government intervention. Nowhere is this more true than in the healthcare and drug...
8/9/19 Hunter DeRensis on the Dangerous Foreign Policy of ‘National Conservatism’
Scott interviews Hunter DeRensis about the National Conservatism Conference, part of a movement that DeRensis describes as trying to come up with intellectual rationalizations for Trumpism after the fact. Crucially, this new national conservatism movement did not...
Bolton’s Economic War on Venezuela
On FPF #385, I cover the US economic war against Venezuela. The US imposed sanctions on Venezuela under Obama. After John Bolton joined the Trump administration as National Security Adviser, the US ramped up the economic war against Venezuela by sanctioning the state...
Ethical Consistency, Does It Really Matter?
We see or hear it all the time. Whether we're on social media or having a conversation with a friend or family member, you may hear something like this, your redneck coworker may say, "We just need to turn the middle east into a sheet of glass!" Meanwhile, your...
8/2/19 Muhammad Sahimi on the Truth Behind Economic Sanctions
Scott interviews Muhammad Sahimi about President Trump's new sanctions on Iran, which are even stricter than those imposed by President Obama, since they eliminate some of the previous waivers and cover even necessary goods like food and medicine because, even though...
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