“The state has proven incapable of leading us wisely, and our growing recognition of that cold fact is amazingly liberating.”

Japan is largest holder, followed by the UK. China’s stash dropped 4% in June. 

Thiel’s contacts with Milei’s inner circle have broadened since his arrival in Argentina in April, with sit-downs with key administration staff.

Last week we heard that US sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and other ships in the Middle East were being fed food that, from photos that surfaced in the media, looked worse than what you would feed a dog. Parents and spouses of service members risked disciplinary action against their loved ones to highlight to the US Navy Secretary and to the media the revolting conditions aboard the carrier, which has been at sea with no port of call for a record period of time.

Henry Hazlitt built his entire case for sound economics on one lesson: judge a policy not by its immediate, visible effect on one group, but by its full effect over time on everyone it touches. Bad economics, he argued, sees only the seen. Good economics traces the unseen as well.

In September, a Jamaican delegation will travel to Britain to place a petition in the hands of King Charles III. The request is quite specific: that the King, in his capacity as Jamaica’s head of state, refer three questions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on whether the transatlantic slave trade was unlawful, whether it amounted to a crime against humanity, and whether Britain owes a remedy for it.