“77 percent of [Republicans] support the war, on average. But that’s exactly what we’d expect for almost any Trump policy.”

Argumentation theorists in the pragma-dialectical tradition start from a simple requirement for any reasonable dispute-resolution: the parties must be free to advance standpoints and call standpoints into question.

“Wright’s use of the word “unlikely” was a veiled concession that a spike to $200 was possible, though he repeated that the price jump would be weeks not months.”

Growth in gross domestic product was down sharply from 4.4% in last year’s Q3 and 3.8% in Q2. The fourth-quarter number was half the govt’s first estimate of 1.4%

[Deleting the State: Requiem for an Illusion by Aeon J. Skoble (Independent Institute, 2026; xiii +134pp.)]

In economic science, as with any science, appropriate, accurate, and precise terminology is essential, but there are often challenges to fitting real phenomena into established categories. In a previous article, “Massachusetts 1690: The First Western Fiat Experiment,” I examined the first experiment with government-issued bills of credit. This article answers the following question: according to Mises’s taxonomy of money, where do the bills of credit of colonial Massachusetts fit?

“A ‘multitude’ of intelligence reports provide ‘consistent analysis that the regime is not in danger’ of collapse and ‘retains control of the Iranian public.’”