Iraq May Drop Maliki as PM Candidate After US Threats

The White House has asked the intelligence community to assess how Iran would respond to the US declaring victory and ending the conflict.  According to multiple sources speaking with Reuters, senior Trump administration officials requested the intelligence community develop the assessment. The request could signal that President Donald Trump may be seeking an off-ramp to […]

Central Banking: The Scourge Of Civilization Authored by George Ford Smith via Mises Institute, Apple builds and sells iPhones. I happen to own one of the older models, for the same reason I own a last-legs older model car. What if Apple could skip the build part and sell only the phone? The money saved would be an enormous boost to its bottom line. And if Apple passed the savings onto customers I could conceivably afford to upgrade. Where would the phones come from? From a bookkeeping entry, of course. Unfortunately, Apple's customers...