More than three years ago, Russian forces began advancing into Ukrainian-held territory. The outcry from Washington and its allies was immediate and sharp. Russian President Vladimir Putin was denounced as a “dictator” in the press in Europe and North America–and also in Japan, where anti-Russian hyperbole has outdone even the most strident voices in the West.

In 2020, state governments forced many businesses to close their doors temporarily for “15 days to stop the spread”. Fifteen days turned into months, and in the progressive state of California it was longer than a year.

Retirement is seen almost as a right by most people in the West, especially America and Europe. Make it to your sixties and most people expect to retire from the daily grind of earning a living. Yet, especially in America, the average retirement nest egg is pathetically low at sixty-five thousand dollars. One in four Americans have no retirement savings.

In his book the Ethics of Liberty, Murray Rothbard sets out the links between individual liberty, property rights, and the non-aggression principle. Rothbard’s explanation of property rights as the essence of liberty has greatly influenced the libertarian understanding of the NAP, but there is often a great deal of confusion as to what amounts to an act of aggression.

Palestinian Christians are denied the basic right to travel and visit sites owned by Christians long before the State of Israel ever existed. 

Trump needs more easy money for ease the economic destruction of Trump’s tax hikes. 

The dollar has fallen sharply since President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January. 

The continuing bear market in bonds is not helped by Trumps repeated calls for more monetary inflation. 

April 19 was the 250th anniversary of American militiamen routing the best army in the world. Seven hundred British troops arrogantly came out of Boston early that day in 1775 to seize firearms and gunpowder in Concord, Massachusetts. By the time the tattered remnants of that force escaped back to Boston, hundreds of British troops were left dead, wounded, or captured along the road. The “shot heard around the world” became one of the most dramatic blows against tyranny in modern history.

For most economists and financial commentators, the heart of economic growth is the demand for goods and services. It is also held that the economy’s total output, as depicted by such measures as gross domestic product (GDP), increases by a multiple of the increase in the demand.