Could Trump's Fable 5 Export Curbs Slow China's AI Model Race

The Further Revenge Of The Barbarous Relic (No Apologies To J.M. Keynes) Authored by George Ford Smith via Mises Institute,It was the Morgans and Rockefellers of Wall Street who turned to government to cage their banking competition, especially the growing challenge from non-national banks in the South and West, and came up with a plan for a central bank. It was the big bankers who took the lead in creating a system that would protect them from the hazards of bank counterfeiting and make them a monopoly issuer of bank...

Hasan Piker's "Touch Of Death"? Far-Left Francesca Hong Loses Wisconsin's Dem Primary For Governor Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly won Wisconsin's Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday night, defeating far-left state lawmaker Francesca Hong despite her backing from Marxist streamer Hasan Piker. David Crowley, who reentered the Wisconsin governor’s race after securing the endorsement of Gov. Tony Evers, won the battleground state’s Democratic primary, defeating democratic socialist Francesca Hong. https://t.co/lrN1X3dlXK pic.twitter.com/4eJKC1BhbQ — The Associated Press (@AP) August 12, 2026 Hong's loss raises a broader question for the democratic socialist movement: Has Piker's...

Et Tu, Indonesia! As the squeeze continues on China's energy supply (and Xi has started to lash out here and here), we suspect the next words out of the Chinese leader's mouth (if he spoke Latin) will be "...et tu, Indonesia!" As Stephen Green writes at PJMedia, it might have seemed like one of those dry, bureaucratic, almost meaningless announcements on Monday, when War Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on X that the U.S. and Indonesia "are elevating our relationship to a Major Defense Cooperation Partnership."  This arrangement “will explore mutually agreed cutting-edge...