Once Again, A Crisis Raises the Question: Why Does the State Exist?

Which States Produce The Most Food In America? From California’s fruit and vegetable farms to the Midwest’s vast corn and soybean fields, agriculture looks very different across the United States. Using the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), this graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, ranks every state by its agricultural production value in 2024. America’s Largest Agricultural Economies The table below shows each state’s agricultural production value in 2024. Together, the top 10 states account for well over half of America’s agricultural production value. Geography, climate, water availability, and decades...

Starmer Hit With Legal Threat After Barring Conservative Speakers From Entering UK For National Rally Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been issued with a formal letter of claim after several foreign politicians, commentators, and activists were blocked from entering the United Kingdom ahead of a major rally in London last weekend. The legal threat was announced over the weekend by Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who said she and others had instructed a lawyer to act on their behalf over potentially defamatory remarks made by...

The New Market Structure, Liquidity Dynamics, & Fragilizers: An Unprecedented Situation With Serious Implications Authored by Alexis Maubourguet, CIO, and Clément Mary-Dauphin, CEO of Adapt Investment Managers, RISK ACTUALLY A holistic review of the recent changes in the distribution of risk across the financial system and their consequences for market structure in general and Liquidity Dynamics in particular. INTRODUCTION After a year in which “everyone won,” it would have been natural to start the new year with confidence, if not outright greed. As natural sceptics, we have always found that difficult. More recently, however,...