In September, 2026, U.S. President Trump announced his intent to have the U.S. Government send $5000 to every American, which would cost tha...

As mass protests erupted in Iran during the second week of January, 2026, Iran’s theocracy was on edge. That the protests stemmed from the d...

To go to much effort to construct an economy on the scale of an empire only to refer instead to the economies within such a union, whether t...

In the 1980s, the advent of some newly-industrializing countries (NICs) in east Asia, such as Taiwan and South Korea, was generating excitem...

Agriculture is a major source of carbon and methane emissions, which in turn are responsible for the general trend of the warming of the pla...

With fiscal policy hamstrung by public debt in both the E.U. and U.S., monetary policy was a major beneficiary of the financial crisis of...

A trend of increased-scale economies can be observed through history as city-states have given way to the increased military power of centr...

Financial markets place bets on political outcomes, such as how or even whether the E.U. state of Britain would secede from the Union. Le...

The Financial Times reported in 2013 that there was “no great clamour in China for western democracy .”[1] The assumption in the West t...

As the U.S. economy slogged through a recession following the credit crisis in 2008 and the E.U. was weighed down by the ballast of auste...

The gist of basic income is that a government “distributes cash universally. As the logic runs, if everyone gets money—rich and poor, the ...

According to the New York Times in 2012, the Chinese had become increasingly willing “to take to the streets despite the perils of openly c...

The financial crisis that peaked in the United States during the fall of 2008 is an excellent case study of what can go wrong with leadersh...

Legislating on the basis of an aversion to government intervention in financial markets can paradoxically result in more massive interventi...

"The European Union and Canada signed a far-reaching trade agreement on [October 30, 2016] that commits them to opening their mar...

Is moderate monetary policy better than going to the extremes? The same can be asked of fiscal policy. Moreover, is a hypertrophic urge to ...

Dilma Rousseff was impeached and removed from office at the end of August, 2016. The state’s senate voted 61-20 to convict her on charge...

What exactly does a large political contribution do for a contributor? The standard line is that access is “bought.” Being far removed from...

It is too simplistic to say that economies around the world converged as capitalistic after the collapse of the Soviet command-and-control ...

Lake Mead, a reservoir outside Las Vegas serving 40 million people in Nevada, Arizona, Southern California, and Northern Mexico, was at its...