Preemptive War, Permanent Emergency: The Real Cost of Trump’s Iran Strike

Taiwan Arms Deal Put On Ice Amid China Pressure, But Pentagon Cites Iran War Stockpile Concerns Did the Pentagon just back down amid pressure from China? It appears so. As we reported Thursday, China has been actively holding up a proposed visit by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's under-secretary of defense for policy. The move is a transparent effort to pressure President Trump over a looming $14 billion weapons package for Taiwan. Sources familiar with the talks told the Financial Times that Beijing signaled it "cannot approve a visit until Trump decides how he will proceed with the...

Initial Jobless Claims Refuse To Blink Amid Increasingly Fragile Labor Market Signals Unchanged from near 1969 lows for the last five years... That's quite a statement amid the sound and fury of markets and macro over the same period, but sure enough, the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time ticked up to 206k last week - the same level as they were back in 2001... Michigan was the standout state with the largest decline in initial jobless claims by far while Kentucky saw the biggest increase (albeit...

Attention Upper Division Undergrads and Grad Students! This year we will celebrate our Seventh class of Ron Paul Scholars and that means if you are a student interested in peace and prosperity, a non-interventionist foreign policy, liberty, and in making contacts among like-minded peers, we welcome your application to be a 2026 Ron Paul Scholar! What […]