There are many factors that affect the yield on government bonds. Yet, it is surely no coincidence that we continue to see yields climb as the federal government churns out new government debt at a breakneck speed never before seen during peacetime. 

The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield—i.e., the interest taxpayers must pay on new government debt—reached an average of 4.38 percent in September. That’s the highest since October of 2007, and if the yield continues to climb, we’ll soon see it topping a 20-year high. 

There’s constant carping about people streaming across the U.S. southern border, giving the word immigration a bad name. Here in Nevada we have people migrating to the Silver State from the west and local leaders couldn’t be happier. 

In a recent Mises Wire article, Connor O’Keeffe posed the question: “Is It Just War or Unjustified Slaughter of Innocents?” O’Keeffe points to Murray Rothbard’s claim that the difference between war and other manners of crime is merely a matter of scale, concluding that what we currently see occurring in the Middle East—as well as in any number of previous conflicts around the world—is not justified.