It’s been only ten years since Barack Obama mocked Mitt Romney for suggesting that Russia is the world’s biggest geopolitical threat. Back then, everyone could see what is obvious: Russia is a country with a small economy and a second-rate military. Its only claim to great power status is that it has a nuclear arsenal. Moreover, Russia is utterly incapable of projecting its power to any region where there is no sizable Russian minority or a majority (i.e., South Ossetia, Crimea, eastern Ukraine).

“Lockdowns” for purposes of controlling the spread of covid have always been morally reprehensible. During 2020, police in American communities were actively assisting politicians in essentially confiscating the private property of business owners who refused to close down their businesses.

Without carefully analyzing data media outlets continue to endorse the narrative that Britain’s policies drained India of resources and culminated in deindustrialization. Colonialism is a contentious subject and perceptions are shaped by visceral emotions, and hence dispassionate analyses are required to arrive at a logical conclusion. For conclusions to be fruitful, we must desist from entertaining romantic notions about colonialism by admitting that colonialism is an extractive system and it is rarely the goal of colonial powers to develop local economies.

The denigration of the Canadian trucker protest convoy exemplifies how freedom is now the biggest villain of the covid-19 pandemic.

Is this really the future we have to look forward to?

CNBC has a headline that reads:

As inflation hits another record, here are 5 steps you can take to protect your money

We live in the age of rampant (monetary and price) inflation, more frequent economic crises, chronic deficit spending, unpayable debt, and massive financial bubbles. That’s not accidental. That’s consequential.

This fact and the many economic, social, and even cultural consequences of our fiat money system remain largely unknown to the majority of people. The US dollar became a fiat currency by deceit and not due to the merit of fiat money or by free choice.

Many readers will already know that Ludwig von Mises considers the Nazi economy to be a form of socialism. In the Nazi system, private property in production goods existed in name only. The ostensible owners were merely managers bound to follow the government’s directives. Rainer Zitelmann, the foremost authority on Adolf Hitler’s economic policies, has fully confirmed Mises’s analysis in Hitler’s National Socialism, which will be published next month. (The book is a revision and expansion of Zitelmann’s earlier book Hitler: The Politics of Seduction).