The Drug Pricing Scramble
Trump’s executive order could put in motion a range of policy changes that will put consumers back in charge of the medical marketplace and begin to whittle away at the awesome power of the medical cartels.
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Small Reforms to Improve the US Medical System
None of these eight reforms rub hard on ideological wounds. All are about respecting individual choice. They would amount to the first major steps toward creating parallel systems of experimentation, all within the framework of the existing system.
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Making Sense of Trump’s Tariffs
Trump’s instinct may well be right that globalisation had shifted the trading balance to America’s net disadvantage, and the new equilibrium that settles after his rupture of the existing world trading order will reposition the US to recover lost ground.
IMF and World Bank: Crony Covid Crackdown Enablers
Bessent announced that Trump will be “doubling down” on supporting the largest foreign aid gushers on earth. “Far from stepping back, ‘America First’ seeks to expand U.S. leadership in international institutions like the I.M.F. and World Bank,” Bessent declared.
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The People’s Property and Income in the Hands of Bureaucrats
The only way to bring public spending back in line with citizens’ interests and ensure it is not hijacked by pet projects is to introduce constitutional and structural reforms that anchor public finances more firmly in local communities and governments.
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The Trouble with Compulsory Globalism
The balance between national sovereignty and freedom is delicate. To permanently detach governing structures from citizen control, even if only through a periodic plebiscite, courts disaster even on topics like trade, to say nothing of infectious disease and virus research.
America’s Hidden Transformation
What if the America you pledge allegiance to isn’t the one running the show? This investigation examines how America’s governance system fundamentally transformed since 1871 through a documented pattern of legal, financial, and administrative changes.
How Richard Nixon Wrecked Free Trade
If the US dollar would become the new gold, other countries could hold it as collateral. Those other countries had a secret weapon: low production costs for manufacturing, backed by wages for labor that were a fraction of the US.
Inflation Is Repudiation
A century ago, Americans clearly recognized the moral implications of inflation. Vice President Calvin Coolidge bluntly declared in 1922: “Inflation is repudiation.” Did Donald Trump learn anything from watching Joe Biden economically suicide-bomb his own presidency?
The Blinders of Ideology
The path forward is for us to abandon the outdated dichotomies through which we formerly interpreted politics and the world and instead turn our attention to how to make the world more and more human and less and less inhuman.
The Stablecoin Trap: The Backdoor to Total Financial Control
While the debate rages over the future threat of CBDCs, a far more insidious reality has already taken hold: our existing financial system already functions as a digital control grid, monitoring transactions, restricting choices, and enforcing compliance through programmable money.
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Do We All Have PTSD?
We have lost our footing in knowing something that scientists long believed we could know: whether and to what extent an economy is growing and prospering or going the opposite way.