Wage Growth As A Leading Inflation Indicator

China Tries To Assert Dominance Over Canada After Carney Trade Deal Historically speaking, crawling to communists for help has never been a good idea; there's always a catch.  By extension, making trade deals with China and the CCP from a position of weakness usually ends with diplomatic concessions instead of mere economic concessions.  That is to say, the Chinese are less interested in economic benefits, and more interested in political submission.  Canadians are about to speed run this lesson after Prime Minister Mark Carney's "new strategic partnership" formed with China...

President Trump on Friday announced the US launched an airstrike in Venezuela that he claimed killed Guerrero Flores, the leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, marking an escalation of the expanding US military campaign in Latin America. Trump said that the strike was launched in coordination with the Venezuelan government, and the cooperation […]

Why Stable Systems Fail: The Illusion Of Institutional Control Authored by Luc Lelièvre via The Mises Institute, There is a persistent belief in modern political life that systems fail because they become fragile. Institutions, it is assumed, weaken under pressure and eventually break down. This intuition is not just incomplete—it is backward. Systems do not fail when they become fragile; they become fragile because they have already lost contact with the realities they claim to govern. What appears as stability is not strength, but the final illusion of a structure that can...