President Joe Biden recently extended the US national emergency for covid-19. A confrontation between truckers protesting Canadian covid mandates and the government in Ottawa has turned ugly.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President and CEO John C. Williams gave a speech Friday outlining the Fed’s monetary tightening plan, Restoring Balance. He provided succinct details over the central bank’s intended course of action, yet failed to show an understanding of the Fed and Government’s role in causing our economic woes. Thus, there is no reason to believe America’s boom and bust cycle will stop anytime soon.

In the months since Angela Merkel’s departure from the German Chancellorship after sixteen years in power, the editorials praising her reign have been legion.

This is not one of them.

With so much having been made in the past decade of China’s behavior in its immediate neighborhood—from jousting with Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands to building up and occupying the Spratly Islands, from harassing Filipino fishermen to engaging in actual border clashes with India—it is worth stepping back and taking a wider view of Chinese behavior in its immediate vicinity.

Is it unprecedented?

How did other large, rising, militarily capable states behave?

How, for example, did the rising United States behave?

The Canadian government is now freezing the bank accounts and personal assets of those who donated to support the Freedom Convoy, which is an organized political protest of the vaccine mandates.

One of the many sketchy tactics employed by advocates of covid lockdowns was to insist that we had to choose between two bad options: the first option was to damage the economy with lockdowns. But in that case, we’d be saving countless lives. The second option was to not impose lockdowns. But the experts insisted in that case, the economic devastation would be far worse because most people would be too sick to work at all. 

Last Sunday, US regulators suspended avocado imports from Mexico after a US inspector in Michoacán allegedly ”received a threatening message on his official cellphone.” 

On February 14, Canadian deputy prime minister and minister of finance Chrystia Freeland announced a government crackdown on the now infamous “Freedom Convoy 2022.” Freeland stated, “If your truck is being used in these illegal blockades, your corporate accounts will be frozen, the insurance on your vehicle will be suspended.” The announcement follows Canadian prime minis