Medieval Europeans Paved the Way for Freedom in the West

"Bin There, Done That?" Not Quite By Elwin de Groot, head of macro strategy at Rabobank Markets may be suffering from a growing sense of "bin there, done that" fatigue when it comes to geopolitical shocks, but central banks are in no position to throw recent developments into the bin just yet. Take Hormuz. Both sides now claim to firmly control the Strait, President Trump appears to favour squeezing Iran economically (or, in Bessent’s words, “economic isolation like the world has never seen before”) rather than militarily (whilst Iran’s thinking may be...

Nature Is Healing: Most S&P100 Companies Dump DEI Criteria From Board Selection To be clear, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives drew heavily on radical Marxist theory and systematically displaced merit-based standards with unproductive, identity-driven politics. What corporate America marketed as a governance priority proved to be a short-lived ideological fad. Most S&P 100 companies are now dumping explicit diversity criteria from their board-selection policies amid growing recognition that mandates conceived in far-left academic institutions prioritized social engineering over productivity, competitiveness, and preserving America's economic dominance. Bloomberg News cited a new...

With Graham Dead, Races Are On For Both Temporary And Permanent Senate Successors While plenty of jaws are still agape following Saturday night's shockingly sudden death of Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, scheming over his vacant seat is already well underway. With Graham having been a chief champion of the West's proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, and a zealous collaborator with Israel in promoting American warfare against Iran, it's not just South Carolinians who are concerned about their representation in Washington.   There are two separate tracks in this succession...