Notes in the Margin

One area would be controlled by Hamas and the other controlled by the Israeli military.

The rollback of U.S. meddling in "promoting democracy" is perhaps the most positive foreign-policy reform of the Trump presidency. Column by James Bovard.

The obsession with measuring aggregate GDP obscures how the real standard of living for many people has declined. 

Ridiculously, Treasury Sec Bessent said in a television interview earlier this month that the peso was “undervalued” and he intended to “buy low and sell high.”

The CIA’s efforts to foment a coup have already failed once. Will Trump try it again? 

More inflation coming: the Fed will lower its key interest rate by 25 basis points next week and again in December, according to a Reuters poll.

The US military has been drawing up plans to launch strikes on Venezuela and potentially capture strategic ports and airfields on the path to a full-blown war.

The new bailout is said to be a "public-private partnership": a state-sponsored corporatist scheme to bail out investors and Milei. 

US senators through their support behind the terrorist Al Qaeda regime that now rules Syria. 

Video: John Mearsheimer exposes how the war is going well for Russia and "the Ukrainians are in deep trouble."