In spite of more than four years of claiming that price inflation was transitory, and that it would quickly return to the Fed’s two-percent target, the Fed has insisted on more easy-money policy over the past 18 months. In that time, the Fed has cut the target interest rate by 175 basis points and has returned to quantitative easing through monthly $40 billion purchases of Treasurys.
You can trust the prolific and ever-entertaining British author Dominic Frisby to produce a most timely book on a most relevant asset class. In The Secret History of Gold: Myth, Money, Politics & Power, released last year in Britain but only available in the US from May, this excellent writer and storyteller takes us along on a truly epic journey.
Many people think that evolution undermines objective ethics. How can we say that ethical judgments are true or false, if these judgments arise from evolution by natural selection? Evolution is concerned only with what enhances reproductive success. To the extent that genes that lead to certain behavior give a selective advantage to their carriers, they will tend to spread through the population. If this explains why we act, this appears to leave no room for explaining ethical behavior though its conformity to truth.
Lea and Roosevelt counties in the US state of New Mexico (NM) in 2026 are seeking to secede and join the state of Texas. “There was a state representative or two from New Mexico who were expressing frustration with the government in Santa Fe,” Texas State Representative Carl Tepper said.
In philosophy and theology, there is an issue called “theodicy” or the problem of evil. The problem of evil has been stated and restated several times throughout history. Put very simply, if God is all-powerful and good, then why is there suffering and evil? In fact, these very questions and issues (among others) are the bulk of the Old Testament book of Job:
Job 9:22-24—“It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys the guiltless and the wicked.’
According to the March employment report, released last week by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, the jobs economy in the United States continues to stagnate as economic growth slows and the US-Israeli war on Iran pushes up energy prices.
