Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: Washington Post
by Morgan Bazilian

“The economic effects of the U.S. war with Iran are often gauged by what the International Energy Agency has called the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. Cumulative losses exceeded 1.3 billion barrels as of June, and this spring prompted a global emergency oil reserve release that was more than double what the agency ordered after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Oil and diesel prices jumped after attacks on a key Saudi Arabian pipeline last week. But the fallout goes far beyond that: The war has caused a commodities crisis running several markets deep — and most of these markets have no reserves to rely on.” (09/18/26)

https://archive.is/VjR3v

Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie

“British parents hand over more than a third of a dual income household’s net earnings on childcare. That’s the highest burden in the OECD. The reflex is to call for more public money. But the international evidence points the other way. The problem isn’t spending. It’s regulation. At the heart of Britain’s high costs sits the child-to-staff ratio. For children under four, the average is 1:4.5, among the tightest in the developed world. Norway and France manage 1:9. Portugal and Luxembourg are similarly relaxed. None of them show the collapse in quality that stricter ratios are supposed to prevent. What they show instead is markedly lower cost to families.” (09/18/26)

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/britains-childcare-problem-is-regulation-not-money

Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey

“Inflation is a government failure, a failure to the citizens of America. The government prints money to fund its overspending and takes on debt as a result, which devalues the U.S. Dollar. The government creates the inflation problem, and in 2020, it put fire onto the already burning flame of inflation by flooding the nation with printed money, which created the huge issues that live with us six years later. Printing money and subsidizing everything under the sun is a false cure for our economy; we should be removing the State from manipulating the currency supply.” (09/18/26)

https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/the-state-created-affordability-crisis