Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of Ten Commandments In Texas Classrooms

President Donald Trump announced that the US will halt the roughly $4 billion in annual military assistance that the US provides to Israel.  “We were giving them $4 billion – we are – but it gets cut off at the end of the year,” Trump told the hosts of Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning. […]

More - And Less - Of The Same Things By Michael Every of Rabobank It’s more of the same to start this Tuesday, and less too: and that isn’t good news. Japanese Q2 GDP came in at 0.4% q-o-q, 1.3% y-o-y at the second read, backing the BOJ hiking rates again on September 18 – but is it really going to be ‘one and done’? The 2-year JGB yield is at 1.84% today, close to a new multi-decade high, and vs. the more usual 0% seen for years, while the 10-year is...

Germany Restricts Emigration To Prevent Young Men From Escaping The Military Draft Authored by Ryan McMaken via the Mises Institute, Late last year, German lawmakers passed new legislation paving the way for military conscription. As the Guardian reports, “The change will include the obligatory screening of all 18-year-old men to gauge their suitability to serve in the military from 1 January..” This is not (yet) full-blown conscription, but clearly moves in that direction, providing the German state with a plan to measure and assess the availability of young men who...