Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Daniel Lacalle

“Many have read that there is a food crisis looming and there are significant concerns about grain shortages. The main reason for this possible crisis is the Ukraine invasion. However, this is not the full picture. Many countries around the world have a large deficit of cereal, which is essential to feed livestock. The main culprit is rising government intervention, which has made costs soar even in periods of low energy prices and an unsustainable level of restrictions that has made it impossible for farmers to continue planting and producing grain.” (06/24/22)

https://mises.org/wire/government-intervention-fueling-food-shortages

Source: FiveThirtyEight
by Monica Potts & Zoha Qamar

“Earlier this week President Biden asked Congress to temporarily suspend collection of federal gas and diesel taxes for three months as a way to relieve pressure on Americans as national gas prices rise to $5 a gallon. If the price keeps going up, it could top highs not seen since the summer of 2008. High gas prices are also helping to drive overall inflation, which reached 8.6 percent as of May. It’s no surprise, then, that Biden is responding to pressure to do something — anything — about gas prices. … That said, some experts worry that a gas holiday could make inflation worse by increasing demand, and it would need to be approved by Congress regardless.” (06/24/22)

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-gas-holiday-might-be-popular-but-its-unlikely-to-do-much-to-lower-inflation/

Source: CounterPunch
by Mitchell Zimmerman

“The bipartisan congressional commission investigating the January 6 coup attempt has found strong evidence that Donald Trump is a criminal. As the hearings reveal, the former president illegally plotted to stay in office after the American people voted to boot him out. Now he must be indicted.” (06/24/22)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/24/why-trump-must-be-indicted/

Source: Foreign Policy
by Howard W French

“Chinese President Xi Jinping has made little secret of his determination to assert direct control over the island in a reasonably near, if deliberately unspecified, future. He has clearly stated that the Taiwan question cannot be put off indefinitely, which all but amounts to staking his place in history on the subordination of Taipei to Beijing. And the next five years bring with them a calendar logic that is hard to ignore. For China, the year 2027 will be the 100th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army, just as it would likely mark the conclusion of Xi’s expected third five-year term in power. All of this creates the impression that all parties involved are stumbling blindly toward conflict.” (06/24/22)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/24/taiwan-china-us-war-democracy-great-powers-biden/

Source: The American Conservative
by Michael Fumento

“Conservatives tend to dislike electric vehicles, or E.V.s. There are pretty good reasons for that. For one, environmentalists love them and usually environmentalists are wrong. If only all decision-making were so easy. Another is that we’re, well, conservative. Internal combustion (I.C.) vehicles are not ‘broken’ by our standards (viz., most of us don’t care about ‘carbon footprints’ since, at some or several levels, we’re skeptical about anthropogenic global warming) so why fix them? … To be sure, environmentalists and E.V. supporters generally want you to believe they are superior in many important respects today. Were that true, why the subsidies and mandates? Ipso facto, on the whole E.V.s of today are inferior. But that will change, and for some purposes, they’re already ahead of I.C. cars.” (06/24/22)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/its-okay-to-like-electric-vehicles/