Since January 2025, the Trump administration has enacted a number of measures that represent a significant expansion of economic pressure as an instrument of US foreign policy towards Cuba.

[A Defense of Virginia and the South by Robert L. Dabney, (1867; Annotated Edition 2020.)]

Murray Rothbard considers the cause of the South in the War between the States as one of two just wars in American history, the other being the Revolutionary War. As he puts it:

In the well-known show The Office (US), there are a few scenes in which Dwight attempts to introduce his currency, “Schrute bucks,” to his co-workers in hopes that they will do certain things to earn Schrute bucks. Eventually, when Dwight learns that his colleagues are uninterested in earning Schrute bucks, Stanley offers to give him a billion “Stanley nickels” to stop bothering him.

Japanese, German, and US bonds are all rising to multiyear highs. Huge global debt loads are triggering demands for higher yields. 

Vance apparently believes that the Fed should lower interest rates as price is rising and lower rates are the “proper and responsible” response to recent U.S. inflation data.

Thousands of Moroccans remain in Ceuta, looting, assaulting women, and paralyzing commerce in the small Spanish enclave.