Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy

President Donald Trump said Congress must extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) even if it means giving up “rights and privileges.” Section 702 allows for the collection of Americans’ data without a warrant.  In a post on Truth Social, Trump urged House Republicans to reject any amendments to the legislation that […]

The EU & The Iron Law Of Oligarchy Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness, Along, long time ago—27 years, to be exact—my boss (the inimitable Mark Melcher) and I predicted that the European Monetary Union would be the death of the EU. The Euro, we wrote for our clients at a now-defunct big brokerage house, would be a disaster and would destroy everything that the post-war Europeans had spent the previous several decades working to build. Specifically, we wrote: Psst! You wanna know a secret? The Euro, and the mess it...

Argentina's Monetary Policy Reveals Germany's Loss of Control Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Javier Milei is a politician who was trained along the lines of the Austrian School of Economics. For him, the maxim coined by Ludwig von Mises applies: inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. In other words: artificial expansion of the money supply leads to price increases – in different ways. Newly created, unbacked credit, as it is inherent in the fiat money system, can initially manifest itself in asset prices depending on the structure of an economy, for...