While China achieved strong economic growth in the post-Mao years by allowing free markets to work, the Communist leadership wants to return the economy to its old socialist ways. However, while the government can give fake growth numbers, it cannot ...
SPX Monitoring Purposes: Sold 11/29/23 at 4550.58 = gain 10.52%; long SPX 10/27/23 at 4117.37. Gain Since 12/20/22: 26.8%. Monitoring Purposes GOLD: Long GDX on 10/9/20 at 40.78. Above is the monthly SPX. The bottom window is the SPX/VIX ratio. It’s common ...
The statist is a complex creature, composed of many parts, some of which are more obvious than others. No two statists are exactly the same, but many of them share a set of common elements. Studying these elements can shed ...
David Gordon reviews Only a Voice, by George Scialabba, dealing with the author’s comments on antiwar progressives Randolph Bourne and Dwight Macdonald. Original Article: Bourne Again ...
Contrary to popular assertions, Ancapistan is a real place and is conventionally referred to as prison. In all seriousness, I have been living in the US federal prison system for four years now, and in many ways, prison society actually ...
Judges will be allowed use ChatGPT to help write legal rulings despite warnings that artificial intelligence (AI) can invent cases that never happened. This is according to a report in The Daily Telegraph. The Judicial Office has issued official guidance ...
MADRID — A Madrid court has started criminal proceedings against a Spanish arbitrator who awarded $15 billion to the descendants of a former sultan in the latest escalation of a 19th-century dispute between the heirs and Malaysia over a land ...
BANGKOK — Myanmar has become the world’s largest source of opium, thanks to domestic instability and a decline in cultivation in Afghanistan, the United Nations (UN) said in a report on Tuesday. The 95% decline in opium cultivation in Afghanistan ...
CONSUMER ADVOCACY group Public Citizen on Tuesday filed a petition with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking to require makers of Botox and several similar injections to include stronger warnings about the risk of a potentially fatal muscle-paralyzing ...
HONG KONG — Children are the most worthy investment for China’s economy to help stimulate consumption and expand domestic demand a Beijing policy institute said, after the country posted its first population drop in more than six decades last year. ...