The Iran War Brings More Inflation and New Strength to the Yuan

I had thought the United States government had hit a new low point last week when the Federal Commission of Fine Arts approved a Semiquincentennial 250th anniversary commemorative 24 karat gold coin featuring President Donald J Trump leaning on his his desk with clenched fists and scowling but that was before Secretary of War Pete Hegseth demanded $200 billion from […]

Yellow Vests Return As French Protests Spread And Macron's Crisis Deepens Remnants of the original Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes) movement are joining the ongoing far-left riots/protests, potentially broadening social instability and increasing pressure on President Emmanuel Macron as he approaches the end of his term in crisis. France's political, social and fiscal pressures are increasingly reinforcing one another, with high borrowing costs making its expansive welfare state harder to finance.  🇫🇷 🪧 President Emmanuel Macron called for calm on the eve of nationwide cost-of-living protests on Saturday that authorities fear could lead...

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) The U. Constitution was ratified to create and to restrain the government. It established boundaries beyond which the government may not venture, even when it invokes national security, public order, economic necessity, emergency or the will […]