This article was originally published by Joshua Mawhorter at The Mises Institute.  Due to wartime inflation of bills of credit (“Continentals”) during the American War for Independence and the predictable economic effects, an old American colloquialism developed, “not worth a Continental” (although this phrase may have come about much later than…

The United States is known for its sanctions that don’t accomplish anything. Now China is trying the same tactic. Beijing has sanctioned twenty U.S. defense firms over arms sales to Taiwan. Sanctions do little if anything to coerce countries into obeying and complying with threats. At the end of the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! JERUSALEM: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar blasted the Palestinian Authority (PA) for emboldening terrorism with its infamous “Pay-for-Slay” program after a Palestinian on Friday murdered two Israelis.Palestinian terrorists murdered 19-year-old Aviv Maor from Kibbutz Ein Harod and Mordechai Shimshon, 68, from Beit…

This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge.  President Trump telegraphed the move last month, warning that US military intervention in West Africa was certainly on the table after what he described as the mass killing of Christians by Islamic terrorists in Nigeria. Now, the president says the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Nigeria said it shared intelligence with the U.S. ahead of Christmas night airstrikes on ISIS targets in the country.The Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Friday that it was “engaged in structured security cooperation” with other nations, including the U.S., adding…

This article was originally published by William L. Anderson at The Mises Institute.  Our plane landed at JFK at 10:30 p.m. after a nine-hour flight from Istanbul. Our day had begun in Riga, Latvia, where my wife, me, and our adopted Latvian daughter had been visiting, the Latvia trip being…