As US Bombs Pound Iran, JD Vance Says the US Is Engaged in a ‘Delicate Diplomatic Dance’

While Adam Smith is celebrated in some circles as the “Father of Free-Market Economics” (Austrians would disagree), his writings on the “disadvantages” of the worker are misleading.

Doug Casey On The End Of Honest Markets Via InternationalMan.com, International Man: Markets are supposed to reflect economic reality. But when central banks suppress interest rates, governments debase currencies, and major powers manipulate oil prices for political purposes, can any market still be considered honest? Doug Casey: Almost all markets are distorted in some way by government intervention. Interest rates are the price of money itself. They’re the blood of an economy; when they’re manipulated, it amounts to blood poisoning. Currencies have become nothing more than floating abstractions. They move up and down by government fiat. The...

Worth Every Dollar (Until It Isn't) Authored by Bryan Lutz via DollarCollapse.com, Jamie Dimon just gave the trillion-dollar AI capex boom his blessing. Standing next to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in New York on Tuesday, the JPMorgan chief told Wall Street that the buildout is “worth the trillion-dollar investment”… a sentence that would have been a punchline two years ago. Now it feels like even the mainstream media disagrees with the consensus. Here’s the problem... BofA Global Research charted every market concentration peak of the last sixty years on a single line: Four bubbles. Four peaks....