Nicholas Anthony Bank of America is at the center of an ongoing January 6 investigation. Yet not because it (or its leadership) was directly involved in the riot. Rather, there has been an ongoing investigation into whether Bank of America supplied the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Some people will get very excited by the title of this post (before the parenthetical) but don't for one minute think this adaptive behavior isn't costly (Heating Waters Force Change in Industries That Depend on the Ocean): In Maine, lobsters are heading north and some lobstermen
In the Gulag, political prisoners were systematically terrorized by ordinary criminals with the encouragement of the authorities. It was hoped this would help the regime liquidate the state's ideological enemies. Original Article: "How the Soviets Used Common Criminals to Destroy the Regime's Enemies"
America’s federally sanctioned entitlement programs, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, each face bankruptcy in the next few years. Medicare and Medicaid were created in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society legislation. Social Security was created in 1935 to provide retirement income for
Leonard Read's famous "I, Pencil" explained the workings of the market in terms of the creation of a simple pencil. However, we should not forget that the reviled fossil fuels are involved at every turn. Original Article: "Not Even a Pencil Could Exist without Fossil Fuels"
Yellow Trucking Company has filed for bankruptcy and ceases to exist as a viable firm. Much of the blame is due to the Teamsters Union which has a long a violent history. Original Article: "Yellow Trucking Goes Bankrupt, Thanks in Part to Onerous Labor Laws"
The seventy-fifth-anniversary celebration of the British National Health Service masked the real failures of this system, one that only can become worse over time. Original Article: "The British NHS More Resembles a Statist Cult Than Advanced Healthcare"
In this episode, Mark explains why we need a Crash (or very Hard) Landing in the US economy and the world economy. Specifically, why is a crash landing better to resolve the malinvestments caused by the Fed? Why is a crash landing better in many ways for the productive
Christian conservatives, for the most part, are relatively receptive to free markets, or at least a generalized concept of what used to be called free enterprise. (This is as opposed to a lot of evangelical economists teaching at Christian colleges that embrace socialism in one
Leaders of the Western democracies are unprepared to deal with forces that will end the fiat dollar’s dominance as the preferred medium of international trade settlement, in place since the end of the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1971. The BRICS summit, currently taking place in Johannesburg,