Category Archives: Guest Post

Links 12/12/2022

Is Canada Euthanizing the Poor?

Canada’s assisted death program attracts people living in misery due to lack of support from the state.

The New “Left Tide” Sweeping Latin America Just Hit a Couple of Big Rocks

Peru continues to stumble from crisis to crisis, scandal to scandal, and president to president. In Argentina one of the towering figures of Latin America’s political left, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, just received a 6-year prison sentence.

Links 12/11/2022

US Prison Labor Boosts Hundreds of Private Companies and Helps Expand the Carceral State

US slave labor boosts American companies and allows the prison system to continue expanding.

China’s New Space Station Opens for Business in an Increasingly Competitive Era of Space Activity

The International Space Station is no longer the only place where humans can live in orbit.

Estimating the True Cost of War: The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine (2014-2019)

A new approach for analyzing the economic cost of war finds the impact on Donetsk, even before the SMO, is very high.

No Appeal Filed in The MH17 Case – Ursula von der Leyen Proposes The Start of a New Show Trial

The dubious but not surprising end of the MH17 trial.

Links 12/9/2022

The Central Bank of Nigeria Just Gave a Whole New Meaning to the Term “Financial Repression”

To salvage its floundering CBDC, the eNaira, Nigeria’s Central Bank just launched an all-out assault against physical cash in a country that is substantially cash-dependent.

Dethroning the Dollar: What Governments Propose, IT Disposes

Why the road away from the dollar will have many twists and turns.