“Justin was a loyal friend and brave man who bore his suffering with dignity and was indispensable to the cause of keeping our country out of these damnable wars,” Pat Buchanan wrote in 2019 at the news of Justin Raimondo’s passing. Raimondo was a veteran of the old paleoconservative-paleolibertarian John Randolph Club—the brain trust behind the Buchanan ’92 and ’96 campaigns.

With the fiat US dollar price of gold multiplied 2.6x since October of 2022 (as of October 20, 2025 when this was written) and rising exponentially (Figure 1), some people are deeply worried that something is seriously wrong with the dollar and with the global financial system generally. Is the soaring price of gold a sign of monetary instability? Or is it just a transitory “nothingburger”?

Figure 1: Gold spot price per troy ounce, most recent five years

There are a few reasons why the word equilibrium stirs up so much debate among economists. One reason is that it is obvious that we live in a world of constant change. Preferences, total stocks of goods, productivity, and known technologies change in unpredictable ways, disrupting markets in ways that make it impossible to observe and very difficult to conceive of anything resembling stability.

“...Holocaust education has begun backfiring, because it has been giving young people the wrong impression that genocide is always bad.” By Caitlin Johnstone.

Crenshaw and other Republicans were on an official visit to Mexico and Crenshaw was “having drinks with a group of Mexican officials.”