Global Economy

Mark Thornton argues that government efforts to hold down oil prices may be prolonging shortages and setting the stage for an even worse energy crisis.

With the AI panic in full swing, the UN claims it wants to step into regulating this new technology. However, the UN is the last organization we would want to regulate anything.

Pan-Africanism as envisioned by western intellectuals and activists and infused with socialism was never based in reality, so it was doomed to fail from the start. But there is a way to better unite African people—beginning with free markets.

Jamaica could have a bright future, but its insistence on pursuing reparations from the West will surely derail any progress the country has made.

World War I wrecked European finance and opened the door for the dollar to displace the pound. Patrick Newman follows Thomas Lamont and Paul Warburg’s ambitions for an imperial banking system, the Fed’s first inflationary boom and bust, and the 1920s high tide of the Money Lords.

“Mr. Rockefeller”—discovered by McCloy, paid by Nelson.

A coalition war: Morgan got Europe, Rockefeller got Asia.

The “Open Door” was a railroad concession with a slogan attached.

There is no doubt that Chinese firms have made many advances in AI technology, but how far they can go in the future still is an open question.

There is no doubt that Chinese firms have made many advances in AI technology, but how far they can go in the future still is an open question.