The ultimate winners and losers in reshoring supply chains to North America have yet to be determined, and may change depending on the time frame. In the short-term, there are ample reasons to reckon consumers will be the losers as shortages and price-gouging (“it’s the tariffs” will be the excuse…
Kenneth Schmidt reports that George Simion of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians storms to 40.69% in the first round of Romania’s presidential election re-run, as nationalists unite against judicial meddling and political chaos. George Simion, leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians party (AUR), came…
In the age of digital censorship, state media is just as likely to be a threat to democracy as a boon to it. The press watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, or FAIR.org, which I read regularly as a young reporter, weighed in on the NPR debate:…
As I’ve mentioned before, I have no idea why I still pay the slightest attention to politics. I derive absolutely no enjoyment from it. Changes that are absolutely essential never come. The changes that do occur just make things worse. And we continue to be “represented” by carnival barkers…
In July of 2024, the Labour Party and Kier Starmer won general elections with the British public seeking to punish conservatives for not following through on their Brexit promises and stopping mass open immigration. One of the primary reasons why the Brexit movement was a success was because it…
The Trump tariffs are one part of a multi-pronged strategy aimed at preventing China from becoming the dominant power in Asia. The military component of this strategy is designed to work in sync with the trade war by encircling China with military bases and hostile neighbors that have…
Failure to do so risks another “forever war”, an Afghan-like debacle for the US, or World War III. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s recent reaffirmation of his country’s goals in the Ukrainian Conflict signal that the Kremlin regards the US’ reportedly finalized peace plan as unacceptable. Ukraine must withdraw from the…
NPR is a small piece of a vast subsidized groupthink bureaucracy, which needs to be cut. After reading Madame Bovary in college I bought the unfinished novel Bouvard and Pécuchet, one of the last things Flaubert wrote. It’s a furious satire about two bourgeois clerks with no ideas of their own who…
As a result of recency bias, where we assume the recent past is a permanent state of affairs, many believe near-zero interest rates are “normal.” They aren’t. As the chart of 10-year US Treasury yields–a proxy for interest rates throughout the economy–illustrates, rates in the 3% or lower were an anomaly…
The Canadian left, which self-identifies as workers of-the-world-wobblies-ready-to-storm-any-barricade, last week elected a central banker whose activities over the past twenty years have systematically crushed the class they claim to support. Turns out that pretending to be a fierce fighter for the working class has cashed the liberals out nicely…
