Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Damian Pudner
“For much of the decade before the Covid pandemic, Britain’s inflation problem was its absence. Prices rose too slowly. Policymakers fretted about deflation, secular stagnation and the limits of monetary policy. Interest rates hovered near zero. Quantitative easing was deployed not to restrain demand, but to stimulate it — often with disappointing results, unless you happened to own property or financial assets. Hitting the Bank of England’s 2% inflation target looked less like a ceiling than a distant aspiration. That world has gone.” (01/26/26)
https://fee.org/articles/does-britains-inflation-target-still-make-sense/
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“The NatCons are modern day Tories with a heavy dose of Southern Traditionalism. Most of what they call for belongs at the community level or private sphere, not the nation.” (01/26/26)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/on-the-very-idea-of-a-heritage-american
Source: Common Dreams
by Thom Hartmann
“Good and Pretti weren’t accidents, and they weren’t about immigration: these murders were unambiguous messages as clear as could be: ‘Get in our way and we will kill you, and nobody will do anything about it.'” (01/26/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-trump-vance-noem-bovino-message-to-americans-obey-or-die
Source: ABC News
“Myanmar’s military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party claimed Monday that it had won the country’s first election since the army seized power in 2021, paving the way for a new government. The victory of the party led by a former general was widely expected after the vote excluded major opposition parties and dissent was tightly restricted. Also, 25% of parliamentary seats were automatically reserved for the military — effectively guaranteeing control by the armed forces and its favored parties. Critics say the polls organized by the military government were neither free nor fair, but an effort to legitimize its rule after seizing power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The takeover triggered widespread opposition that dragged Myanmar into a civil war.” (01/26/26)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/military-backed-party-secures-myanmar-election-win-opposition-129558469
Source: The Bulwark
“Sarah Longwell: The Alex Pretti Killing is Actually Breaking Through.” (01/26/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bYR3b7ReXI
Source: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus
by David Beckworth & Kaleb Nygaard
“How FOMC meetings and the Federal Reserve’s internal governance have evolved over time.” (01/26/26)
https://macroeconomicpolicynexus.substack.com/p/who-sits-at-the-feds-table-part-ii
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Thomas Eddlem
“Donald Trump has proven Horton’s Law, that politicians only keep their bad promises, true once again. He was always a New York Democrat billionaire, and he was never going to be a champion of working people or free markets. Trump is a Likudnik, not America First, and always was the former and never the latter. The Democrats were right that Trump was an agent of a foreign government; they just got the wrong government. Trump is an Israeli agent, not a Russian agent.” (01/26/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/why-fracturing-maga-doesnt-matter
Source: USA Today
“The Supreme Court will decide whether a 1988 privacy law spurred by the disclosure of a high court nominee’s video rental history should be applied to digital videos watched on a free website. The court on Jan. 26 agreed to review a lower court’s ruling that the Video Privacy Protection Act can’t be used to sue a sports website for sharing a user’s video-watching history with Facebook. After President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the high court in 1987, a journalist obtained from his local video store a list of films Bork had rented. Congress responded by creating stiff penalties for any ‘video tape service provider’ who discloses personal information about their customers without consent.” (01/26/26)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/26/supreme-court-video-privacy-law/88302348007/
Source: The Daily Economy
by John Phelan
“APR caps may sound consumer-friendly, but price caps just serve to cut off vulnerable households from legitimate lenders.” (01/26/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/capping-card-interest-rates-wont-make-credit-cheaper/
Source: Townhall
by Derek Hunter
“The entire ‘protest’ movement seems like a mating dance for people who otherwise wouldn’t ever get laid (not that they’re getting laid, but marching with people is about as close to the prospect of it as they’re likely to get). It’s hard for people who pay attention to what’s going on to care when someone gets hurt, or worse, when you know these people have taken to the street for what amounts to performance art.” (01/26/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/01/26/play-stupid-games-win-stupid-prizes-n2670053
