Australia's Qantas To Cut Domestic Flights Amid Fuel Price Surge

Joe Biden Makes Insane Claim That He Reduced Illegal Immigration It's time for a fact check.  Former President Joe Biden is back after a year largely absent from the public eye, and he's just as incoherent as ever.  Biden left the White House in disgrace after a dismal first term when his own party supplanted him as the primary candidate for the 2024 elections against Donald Trump.  His cognitive decline became obvious after his debate performance and questions remain if he was actually aware of the majority of his own executive...

In this article from 1950, Murray Rothbard suggests some of the less bad ways of financing military operations. Hint: monetary inflation and taxing savings and investment are among the worst.

Is The Iran War Good For The Petrodollar? Diana Choyleva wrote an excellent editorial for the Wall Street Journal entitled “The Iran War Is A Boon For The Petrodollar.” She pushes back against claims that the Iran conflict is accelerating the death of the petrodollar. Instead, RealInvestmentAdvice.com points out that she argues the opposite: between Iran and Venezuela, the U.S. is defending and bolstering dollar dominance in the oil trade. The 75-year-old petrodollar system rests on oil being priced and traded in dollars, which keeps the dollar prominent in all global trade. China has...