ENB Pub Note: The BRICS countries did not have the financial clout to impact global markets until the energy and geopolitical crisis. Now, if they add members and move oil trading away from the U.S. […]
What do financial conditions indicate about the economy? What effects do they have on growth? From S&P 500 Index returns to the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) to a range of credit conditions, the Chicago Fed’s […]
Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, n’ Guns blog, Blood rack, barbed wirePoliticians’ funeral pyreInnocents raped with napalm fireTwenty-first century schizoid man – King Crimson, “21st Century Schizoid Man” You’ve all heard me rant […]
Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), One problem for CEOs who direct their companies to follow the goals of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria is that in doing so, they […]
Authored by Ron Shultis via RealClear Wire, Besides “tax increase,” few terms rile up Americans more than “red tape.” Like a vine or weed that spreads out of control, red tape conjures up visions of […]
Last week, the New York Times wrote a puff piece which framed President Biden’s numerous gaffes during a Florida rally as ‘verbal fumbling.’ Biden conflated the war in Ukraine with the Iraq war, then […]
Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Price inflation and the resulting business cycles are monetary phenomena, and without increases in the money supply–i.e., monetary inflation–there is no price inflation. If the world were […]
Tehran, Iran – Iran’s embattled national currency has hit a new all-time low amid ongoing protests and a lack of progress in efforts to restore the country’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. The rate […]
Live by the incentive to go “green”, die by the incentive to go “green”. In what can only be described as the ultimate irony, UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt is expected to put an electric vehicle […]
Iran has announced the successful test flight of a rocket capable of propelling satellites into space, three months after launching a satellite with the help of Russia. The United States has repeatedly voiced concern that […]
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