From the September 3 edition of the Wall Street Journal: 

Americans are falling into the socialism trap by not realizing that solving big government problems with an even bigger one is dangerous. Many blame capitalism for their affordability problems, when the true cause is statism. Statism is the gradual replacement of civil society, markets, savings, and individual choice by political control, public spending, regulation, taxation, and monetary intervention.

The US hit a financial milestone a few days ago; the Federal debt reached $40 trillion. Some economists have argued that a large national debt isn’t necessarily problematic, and can even be beneficial. US GDP is also large, and as long as it grows at least as fast as growth in our national debt, we can finance this debt indefinitely.

One wonders if Trump will try to hand Milei the Falkland islands as a reward for Milei’s fanatical support of the State of Israel. 

“All eyes are on the anticipated visit of King Felipe VI to Ceuta. This visit comes as the Spanish government seeks to promote calm and contain the fallout from the migration crisis and recent tensions surrounding the city.”

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.