Roger Garrison and the Sustainable Growth of the Austrian School

French Navy Boards 5th Russian 'Shadow Fleet' Vessel Off Europe Since September French President Emmanuel Macron has announced yet another highly provocative naval seizure of a Russian so-called shadow fleet vessel.  "On Tuesday, the French navy boarded the oil tanker Deliver as it was passing off the coast of Sicily in breach of maritime law," Macron wrote in a post on X, revealing the prior interdiction that took place earlier in the week. Illustrative, via French Navy Reports say it flew a Cameroonian flag and was sailing from Russia's Baltic port of Primorsk,...

Europe's EV Sales Jump 51% As Iran War Sends Gasoline Prices Soaring By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com, Registrations of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in Europe’s key automotive markets surged by 51% in March as the Iran war pushed gasoline prices to multi-year highs, data published by research firm New Automotive and trade association E-Mobility Europe showed on Monday. A Tesla charging on a street in Amsterdam More than 224,000 new electric passenger cars were registered in March alone across 15 key EU + EFTA markets, the analysis found. These sales accounted for as...

The AI Race With China Has Seven Fronts Authored by Noosheen Hashemi via RealClearMarkets, At the White House on Tuesday, President Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and leaders of America's major AI companies emerged with a voluntary accord calling for robust internal controls, independent auditing and safeguards against AI systems accessing technical systems in unintended ways. The agreement is limited and its implementation will matter. It also offers a useful example of government bringing fierce competitors together around a concrete problem while leaving competition intact. That example matters because much of the federal...