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Socialism is not only death and repression, it is anarchy, too. Under socialism there is no means of coordinating economic activity. The planners plan for five years or they plan for ten, but the best they can do is guess what goods are needed and where they are needed most. Economic calculation is impossible without […]
The long-awaited sanctions against Iranian oil exports took effect earlier this week on Tuesday, a month after US President Donald Trump announced that he would be withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal. The new sanctions have loomed over the oil industry since their announcement, as many experts disagreed on the market ramifications. Although the White […]
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced on Sunday that no other countries would be permitted by Ankara to drill for natural gas off the coast of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean sea. According to a report from Reuters, Erdogan made the announcement while attending the christening of two new Turkish warships — a submarine and a […]
Student debt outstanding has tripled since 2005 — soaring past 1.5 trillion earlier this year, according to the Federal Reserve. Furthermore, one in six borrowers has a debt burden that exceeds their annual income, leading to a long-term savings crisis that has the potential to explode in the future as 65% of those who owe […]
The Trump administration announced on Thursday that the US would be placing more sanctions on Venezuela to gain some satisfaction from the country’s ruler, president Nicolas Maduro. According to a report from Bloomberg, the new sanctions are specifically targeted towards the South American country’s gold base; thus making it harder for Venezuela to continue to […]
UK-based pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) released its third-quarter earnings report, which was higher than expected thanks in large part to the company’s newest shingles vaccine called “Shingrix.” According to Reuters, the company took in 8.09 billion pounds in sales and boosted its earnings per shares by more than two pence. “The performance of our new […]
Like SpaceX founder Elon Musk or Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos, British billionaire Richard Branson has long had his sights set on space travel. Unlike Musk and Bezos, however, Branson believes aircraft assisted launches are the secret to making trips to the stars more affordable. It’s with that ultimate goal in mind that Branson built […]
Just days after signing economic cooperation agreements with China, Japan signed a currency swap deal with India, valued at $75 billion. According to Bloomberg-Quint, this new agreement will help bolster the rupee, which has seen a significant loss in value during the recent months. The deal should also help India access foreign capital and foreign […]
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report earlier this year titled “The Distribution of Household Income, 2014.” The report analyses a mountain of data from 2014, looking for trends in the distribution of income, taxation, transfers from federal government programs, inequality, and so on. Basically, the report looks at the actual data behind every […]
According to projections put out by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), government spending on servicing the interest on the national debt is set to increase by 70% in the next three years alone. The CBO projection is driven by two trends: 1) trillion-dollar deficits today and those projected in the President’s Budget; and, 2) rising […]
Despite slowing home sales and a tightening of Fed policy, the labor market in the United States continues to expand. Total job openings in the economy rose to 7.14 million in the month of August, up from the 7.08 million in July that had been the record. The job opening rate also hit a new […]
The price of gold was up on Friday, marking a four-week run-up of the precious metal. According to a report from Market Watch, many investors are looking for a relatively stable asset to shield them from a decline in stock markets around the globe. “Safe-haven gold is again acting as a hedge and safe-haven asset, […]
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