How War and Fiat Currencies Drive the Price of Gold and Oil

During a meeting with President Donald Trump in China on Thursday, President Xi Jinping warned of the possibility of war over Taiwan.  According to a recounting of the meeting between the two leaders, Xi said that if the Taiwan issue is handled correctly, then the relationship between the US and China can be stable. He […]

Ukraine has launched a series of drone strikes at Russia, damaging warships and killing one person.  On Monday, the Ukrainian intelligence service, GUR, claimed that drones destroyed two landing ships and damaged a radar at a Russian port in Crimea. Ukraine also attacked the Russian base in Sevastopol on Saturday.  The Russian Defense Ministry reported […]

Hayek, Orwell, And 'The End Of Truth' Authored by Jonathan Miltimore via Civitas Institute, In 1942, after fighting in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1937), a disillusioned writer returned to London to write about his experience. It wasn’t just that the fascists in Spain had won and his side—a small, anti-Stalinist Marxist group—had lost. What frightened him was the ease with which truth itself had been erased and replaced by propaganda. “I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I...