Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Five years ago, the Postal Service came up with a 10-year plan for fortifying its financial situation. That was after it had lost $14 billion over a period of 14 years. For the past five years, however, the financial situation has not gotten any better. … Thus, to resolve its crisis, the Postal Service is asking Congress to permit it to borrow more money and to charge more for postage. But does anyone really think that borrowing more money and charging consumers more for postage is going to resolve the Postal Service’s financial woes? There is another solution, one that seemingly hasn’t yet entered the minds of the members of Congress: Simply abolish the Postal Service.” (03/19/26)
“Since Congress hasn’t declared war, the executive branch has no authority to wage war. Congress shouldn’t fund something that only Congress has the power to approve when it hasn’t exercised that power. … The beauty of the situation is that all Congress has to do to take control of the situation is the same thing it’s been doing: Sit on its hands, with one of those hands gripping the budgetary wallet tight. They don’t even have to say ‘no.’ They just have to NOT say ‘yes.’ … If Congress doesn’t even possess the testicular fortitude to refrain from shelling out billions every time Hegseth sticks his hand out, what is Congress even good for? The question kind of answers itself.” (03/19/26)
“During the first Trump administration, the FBI quietly spent $5 million on Pegasus, an Israeli-developed software product known generically as zero click. Zero click permits the user to download the contents of another mobile or desktop device without tricking the user of that device into clicking on a viral link. When FBI Director Christopher Wray was confronted with evidence of this purchase in 2021, he stated under oath at a congressional hearing that his agents did not and would not use it; but they bought it because they wanted to understand how it worked. … Not trusting his own FBI director, President Joe Biden signed an executive order in 2023 prohibiting the use of this software by any employee of the federal government except for true national security emergencies. Last week, we learned that President Donald Trump quietly rescinded Biden’s executive order.” (03/19/26)
“Working taxpayers are encouraged to think of themselves as ‘lending’ money to the government to finance future benefits, but instead of the government investing those payments to generate the needed resources, those ‘loans’ are simply consumed by today’s retirees. This creates the monetary disequilibrium we experience today. Think now about bondholders. Savers believe that the instruments of public debt they own constitute wealth, even though that wealth has already been consumed and not invested. Distortions in interest and exchange rates follow from this disjunction. Either the wealth exists, or it does not, and at some point in the future, every society that creates false rights will have its day of reckoning. Unless something is done, it will be no different for the United States.” (03/19/26)
“At a recent Senate hearing on the fiscal outlook, legislators and budget experts said the quiet part out loud: the United States is running historically large deficits in non-crisis times, and we need to stop pretending that we can grow our way out of it. Washington’s problem isn’t ignorance. It’s that the only politically safe position is to acknowledge the debt crisis — and then do nothing to fix it.” (03/19/26)
“Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Middle East over one more nation supposedly trying to acquire them. While we consider the dangers of such weapons and their capacity to cause massive destruction, we often overlook the risks associated with what still passes for ‘peaceful’ nuclear power. With that in mind, let me revisit a moment when that reality should have become far clearer. I had crawled into bed on March 10, 2011, opened my phone, and scrolled through my Instagram feed. The app was still fairly new then, and I was only following a dozen or so accounts, several from Japan. One amateur photographer there had posted photos minutes earlier of a fractured sidewalk and a toppled bookshelf. A massive earthquake had just rattled Tokyo.” [editor’s note: The fearmongerers continue to ignore the advances in “safe” nukes as a viable power source – SAT] (03/19/26)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott
“In the last month, the small nation of Malaysia has risen in the views of global investors. Drawn by the country’s political stability and economic growth, investors increasingly consider Malaysia a safe method for diversification in the Pacific region amid a softening US dollar and a tumultuous global economy. In 2025 alone, investors poured over $5 billion into local currency debt—the highest in the region — leading to the Malaysian currency, the Ringgit, reaching its highest point since 2018. … This resurgence from the 1MDB scandal of 2020, that saw billions of government money disappear, should not be read as accidental or a mere coincidence of location, though that’s part of it: Malaysia sits in a ‘sweet spot between low-yielders, such as Singapore, Thailand, and South Korea, and high-yielders such as Indonesia and India, which come with their own set of risks,’ according to portfolio manager at Eastspring Investments, Rong Ren Goh.” (03/19/26)
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“More than 30 years ago, I was listening to an NPR interview with Paul Ehrlich, the late Stanford University biologist who became the nation’s top environmental guru. His comments were opposite of the truth but well-received by his interviewer. Despite the fact that he often made unwise and outrageous claims that governing elites turned into brutal, coercive policies that made life worse for some of the poorest people on the globe, elites treated Ehrlich as a hero. Knowledgeable people knew better.” (03/17/26)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Westerners are about to start paying a lot more attention to the war in Iran as massive US-Israeli escalations point to a coming energy crisis set to impact the whole world. Israel has bombed the world’s largest natural gas field in southwestern Iran, reportedly in coordination with the United States. Now that a major red line for Tehran has been crossed, retaliatory strikes have already begun pummeling the energy infrastructure of US allies in the region, with Qatar reporting that its primary gas facility has sustained ‘significant damage’ from an attack after Iran issued evacuation warnings for energy facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Fuel prices are already surging.” (03/19/26)
