The 1619 Project is back in the news with the release of the six-part Hulu series built around its claim that “nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery.” The 1619 Project, championed by Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times, has been...
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The Early Bird Stops the Central Bank’s Digital Currency Designs
by Connor O'Keeffe | Feb 6, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
Whether you like it or not, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are coming. That’s the message in a recent tech column in the Wall Street Journal. A similar tone can be found coming from organizations like the World Economic Forum, the International Monetary Fund,...
Does the Death of the Petrodollar Signal the End of the U.S. Empire?
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 1, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On January 17, the Saudi minister of finance, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, announced that the Saudi state is open to selling oil in currencies other than the dollar. “There are no issues with discussing how we settle our trade arrangements, whether it is in the U.S. dollar,...
What If the Davos Agenda Has Already Been Defeated?
by Tom Luongo | Jan 25, 2023 | Featured Articles
In November 2021 I wrote a piece entitled “Have We Finally Reached Peak Davos?” This article was scarily spot on. When you’ve written as much as I have over the past five years, however, it’s easy to look back and point at how prescient you were. Even if you’ve gotten...
TGIF: The Economic Way of Thinking Can Save Lives
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 20, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The Cambridge economist Joan Robinson (1903-1983) wisely said, "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of readymade answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists." Excellent point, though I would both broaden...
A Defense of Mutual Aid Societies
by Zack Sorenson | Jan 19, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The libertarian community is unique on account of its ability to ignore standard political and social conventions. Libertarians value freedom and understand why it needs free markets. However, libertarians do not possess a conservative loyalty to the system as it is...
News Roundup 1/19/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 19, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia The US and its allies are holding a series of meetings this week in Europe where new pledges for military aid to Ukraine are expected to be made, and more countries might agree to arm Kyiv with tanks. AWC Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley...
US, China Vow to Increase Communication to Avoid Conflict in High-Level Meeting
by Dave DeCamp | Jan 19, 2023 | News
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with China’s top economic official, Vice Premier Liu He, in Switzerland on Wednesday as Washington and Beijing continue to maintain high-level contacts.
No More ‘Better Mousetraps’: How Financialization Discourages Technological Improvement
by Zack Sorenson | Jan 11, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
Capitalism is a social technology that directs resources toward valuable uses, increasing the total wealth in society. As a social technology, it organizes people and resources into systems and processes. When capitalism directs resources toward processes that...
Netanyahu’s Return to Power: A Prelude to Anti-American Terrorism?
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jan 10, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power in Israel has ushered in a government more dominated by religious and ultra-nationalist extremists than any ruling coalition in the country’s 74-year history. While that fact has been well-reported, most Americans are oblivious to...
On Trade, Biden Continues Reading from the Trump Playbook
by James Bacchus | Jan 9, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
The prolonged charade of the United States is over in its disingenuous opposition to the reconstitution of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. It is clear now that the Biden administration—like the Trump administration before it—has no desire to...
News Roundup 1/6/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 6, 2023 | News Roundup
Venezuela Venezuela’s opposition on Friday voted to remove Juan Guaido as the “interim president” and to dissolve the US-backed “interim government,” a move that came after resuming talks with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. AWC Venezuelan President Nicolas...
Stop Confusing Globalization With Globalism
by Connor O'Keeffe | Jan 5, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
After the 2008 financial crisis, calls rang out across establishment publications and the executive offices of Wall Street that we were witnessing the death of globalization. The calls grew louder and more numerous after Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, the...
Why Is Everything Getting So Expensive?
by Richard Ebeling | Jan 3, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
The United States and most of the rest of the world are, once again, in the midst of an inflationary crisis. Prices in general are rising at annualized rates not experienced by, especially, the industrialized countries of North America and Europe for well over 40...
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Black History Month?
If a Martian social scientist were to visit America, he surely would assume that Black History Month had been concocted by racists. And he'd be right -- for a racist qua racist need not bear ill will toward a particular group. What makes someone a racist is the very...
ESG in Canada
When I talk about ESG it isn’t out of concern for the corporations being regulated, it is out of concern as to how it affects the common man. While many dismiss my concern as a “conspiracy theory” cutting people off from their money and financial institutions is in...
ESG on The Courtenay Turner Podcast
My friend Courtenay Turner invited me on her podcast to get deep into ESG and why it matters.
Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
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