Notes in the Margin

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." 

In his shocking new book, The Fort Bragg Cartel, investigative journalist Seth Harp uncov

Like Trump, Waller favors more monetary inflation and is "a dove in favor of running the economy hot."