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The following is a long-forgotten story regarding the true nature of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s attitude towards free speech. Zelensky has been lionized by the western press since the start of Russia’s invasion, but in the not-so-distant past, many international human rights organizations and concerned Ukrainians were sounding the

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (a branch within the US State Department) releases annual ‘Human Rights Reports’ on 194 different countries around the globe. Their 2021  report  for Ukraine was released in April of this year. Despite its relevance to whether US intervention in the RU-UA war is merited, the report received zero

Let me be clear from the start: I do not know the degree to which vaccine mandates have played a role in the massive voluntary exodus from the workforce. I do, however, know that any true journalist would at least entertain the possibility that the two are correlated. Finding such a journalist proved to be a difficult task:  ABC ,  CNN ,  CBS ,

Our healthcare system is broken, a fact nobody would have disputed in precovid days. Regulatory capture is a reality, and the pharmaceutical industry is fraught with examples. Yet we trusted private-public partnerships to find an optimal solution to a global pandemic, assuming a crisis would bring out the best in historically corrupt institutions.

Journalist, historical analyst, and conspiracy theorist Mathew Erhet joined Whitney Webb’s Unlimited Hangout podcast titled “Fabians and Fascists”. Erhet made several extraordinary claims, many of which I found intriguing and planned to verify later. I was impressed with Erhet as he was quite articulate and pulled “facts” from a seemingly endless

On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held true to its monetary-tightening timeline despite last week’s 10 percent drawdown in most major indices, effectively saying, “10 percent is not enough.” With retail sales numbers that will surely return to trend without more stimulus (see chart), a gridlocked Senate, and the prospect of

The go-to bullish indicators highlighted by pundits these days are the high levels of sidelined mutual fund cash and the AAII investor sentiment survey hitting its highest bearish reading since 2009: Traditionally, these signals suggest that most of the carnage is priced into markets, indicating that it might be time to buy. However, these data

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. - Milton Friedman Not only does Milton’s quote hold true in times of dire crisis, but worse, programs expand with even less scrutiny and oversight. If you’re unfamiliar with the situation in Sri Lanka, here are a  couple   videos   to   give you   an   idea . Bad governance is to blame (or

There’s a saying on Wall Street referring to the stock market that “all correlations go to one in a crisis.” Perhaps more accurately, all correlations go to one when a single governing body determines interest rates for the entire economy. Interest rates are the price of money. Virtually all public companies utilize debt to some degree. When the

I recently dug into our government’s convoluted unemployment insurance system. As is typically true with most government policy, any stone one decides to unturn is ripe with waste, fraud, and mismanagement. In 1935, FDR (of course) created the first federal unemployment insurance program via the Social Security Act. The program created a national