International
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Biden Administration: Incompetent, Naïve, or Desperate?
“Dealing with the Ukraine crisis might prove impossible for a president who is incompetent, naïve, and desperate. Buckle up, as the fabled (though probably faux) Chinese curse, ‘May you live in interesting times,’ comes true.” ~ Doug Bandow
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Lessons from the Tokugawa Shogunate 1603 – 1868
“The impact of the Shogunate was one of stability and unification over the course of the 1600s. The Shogunate established peace and stability after a period of destructive civil war, which in turn allowed commerce and domestic industry to flourish.” ~ Robert F. Mulligan
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Putin, Ukraine, and Covid
“Russia is not, by far, the only nation for which the Covid pandemic starkly exposed a variety of limitations. But whether in volumes or a few paragraphs, history must reflect the role that one of many influences, a global pandemic, played.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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Death by Inflation or by Interest Rate Hikes?
“If central banks protect the value of the currency, they will create an economic crisis. If they try to avoid the economic crisis, they will destroy the value of the currency and cause a monetary crisis anyway.” ~ Daniel Fernández
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Russia Closes Gulag Memorial, but Communist Oppression Must Not Be Forgotten
“Let us honor the Memorial International and its brave supporters. They helped force the rest of us to remember the evil that never seems to lurk far from men’s and women’s hearts.” ~ Doug Bandow
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The Year of the Strong Dollar
“The urgency to correct the country’s large public finances is likely to be heightened by a further widening in the trade deficit in 2022 as the consequence of a stronger dollar and the relative strength of the U.S. economy.” ~ Desmond Lachman
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Africa Needs Carbon Fuels
“It’s time to end environmental colonialism. Let Africa develop – quickly – and they, like people elsewhere, will choose more environmental protection as they grow wealthier.” ~ James E. Hanley
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The Green Economy, Interethnic Conflict, Corporate Mining, and West Papua
“It is strange how President Biden and other world leaders’ desires to save the planet from global warming can be the impetus for local environmental crises that are more immediate in their consequences than the global warming on the horizon.” ~ Todd Myers
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Could Carbon Taxes Lose Us a Cold War with China?
“To draw the developing world from the clutches of China’s Communist Party, policy-makers must incorporate revenue neutrality into their carbon tax considerations, or else abandon the plan entirely.” ~ Connor Tomlinson
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The Unfolding Tragedy In Turkey Underscores Preeminence of Currency Policy
“Hedging can mitigate currency lurches, but it can’t reverse the initial theft. Currency policy rates top-of-the-pyramid attention, but doesn’t get it. Turkey’s struggles remind us of currency policy’s preeminence.” ~ John Tamny
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Biden Administration: Incompetent, Naïve, or Desperate?
“Dealing with the Ukraine crisis might prove impossible for a president who is incompetent, naïve, and desperate. Buckle up, as the fabled (though probably faux) Chinese curse, ‘May you live in interesting times,’ comes true.” ~ Doug Bandow
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Lessons from the Tokugawa Shogunate 1603 – 1868
“The impact of the Shogunate was one of stability and unification over the course of the 1600s. The Shogunate established peace and stability after a period of destructive civil war, which in turn allowed commerce and domestic industry to flourish.” ~ Robert F. Mulligan
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Putin, Ukraine, and Covid
“Russia is not, by far, the only nation for which the Covid pandemic starkly exposed a variety of limitations. But whether in volumes or a few paragraphs, history must reflect the role that one of many influences, a global pandemic, played.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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Death by Inflation or by Interest Rate Hikes?
“If central banks protect the value of the currency, they will create an economic crisis. If they try to avoid the economic crisis, they will destroy the value of the currency and cause a monetary crisis anyway.” ~ Daniel Fernández
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Russia Closes Gulag Memorial, but Communist Oppression Must Not Be Forgotten
“Let us honor the Memorial International and its brave supporters. They helped force the rest of us to remember the evil that never seems to lurk far from men’s and women’s hearts.” ~ Doug Bandow
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The Year of the Strong Dollar
“The urgency to correct the country’s large public finances is likely to be heightened by a further widening in the trade deficit in 2022 as the consequence of a stronger dollar and the relative strength of the U.S. economy.” ~ Desmond Lachman
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Africa Needs Carbon Fuels
“It’s time to end environmental colonialism. Let Africa develop – quickly – and they, like people elsewhere, will choose more environmental protection as they grow wealthier.” ~ James E. Hanley
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The Green Economy, Interethnic Conflict, Corporate Mining, and West Papua
“It is strange how President Biden and other world leaders’ desires to save the planet from global warming can be the impetus for local environmental crises that are more immediate in their consequences than the global warming on the horizon.” ~ Todd Myers
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Could Carbon Taxes Lose Us a Cold War with China?
“To draw the developing world from the clutches of China’s Communist Party, policy-makers must incorporate revenue neutrality into their carbon tax considerations, or else abandon the plan entirely.” ~ Connor Tomlinson
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The Unfolding Tragedy In Turkey Underscores Preeminence of Currency Policy
“Hedging can mitigate currency lurches, but it can’t reverse the initial theft. Currency policy rates top-of-the-pyramid attention, but doesn’t get it. Turkey’s struggles remind us of currency policy’s preeminence.” ~ John Tamny