ROME – Italy’s government will agree on a limited extension of costly “superbonus” subsidies for home improvements which Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had previously blamed for wrecking public finances, a coalition party said on Thursday. The Forza Italia party, which pushed hard ...
WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden on Thursday extended the suspension of tariffs on European Union steel and aluminum for two years to continue negotiations on measures to address overcapacity and low-carbon production. The United States suspended import tariffs of 25% on ...
CAIRO/GAZA – Israeli tanks thrust deep into a town in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday after days of relentless bombardment that forced tens of thousands of already displaced Palestinian families to flee in a new exodus. A Palestinian journalist posted pictures ...
CHRISTIANSTED, St. Croix – G7 leaders will discuss a new legal theory that would enable the seizure of $300 billion in frozen Russian assets when they meet in February, two sources familiar with the plans and a British official said on Thursday. ...
HANOI – Vietnam’s economic growth slowed to 5.05% this year from an expansion of 8.02% last year, official data showed on Friday, weighed by weak global demand while public investment stalled amid an intensified anti-graft crackdown. This year’s gross domestic product (GDP) ...
[From “The Exhaustion of the Reserve Fund” in Human Action, chap. 36.] The idea underlying all interventionist policies is that the higher income and wealth of the more affluent part of the population is a fund which can be freely used ...
When Murray Rothbard established a realignment in libertarian thought, his standard was determined by sovereignty rather than bipartisanship. A right-wing populist platform might be the most popular campaign strategy in the last few years. Since Brexit, a trend has swept ...
[This article is chapter 5 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Now available at Amazon and in the Mises Store.] One of the most consistent and enthusiastic defenders of human rights and “natural rights” in the twentieth century was the ...
When we discuss participation we are referring to the more specific and accurate assessment of breadth available with the Golden Cross and Silver Cross Indexes. The venerable and widely known Golden Cross is when the 50-day moving average of a ...
Intel (INTC) wants to expand its manufacturing facilities and the recent news of the company investing $25 billion in a new manufacturing facility in Israel sent the stock price higher. Intel has been lagging in its manufacturing capabilities, so investing ...