Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Magnus Henrekson, Christian Sandström, & Miakel Stenkula

“In 2020, the European Union launched its Green Deal. Six years later, investments in hydrogen-based projects have collapsed, and electricity prices are twice as high as in the US and China. Europe is losing its competitive edge. In our research for the Institute of Economic Affairs, we identify eight reasons why the EU Green Deal is not working. In doing so, we draw policy lessons for the United Kingdom.” (03/24/26)

https://fee.org/articles/the-eus-failed-green-deal-is-a-warning-to-us-all/

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“The only worthwhile ‘western culture’ in modern times is culture which rejects and opposes the dystopian nature of western civilization and the abuses of the western empire. Western civilization is what’s bombing Iran. It’s what’s strangling Cuba. It’s what’s torching Lebanon. It’s what’s exterminating Palestine. It’s what stole Venezuela. It’s what’s plundering the labor and resources of the global south. It’s what’s keeping the systems in place which are killing our ecosystem and driving us closer to nuclear armageddon. There is no sane and truthful position to have toward all this but vehement rejection. Westerners — particularly white westerners in nations with colonialist histories like the United States and Australia — often struggle to find their cultural moorings. It can be difficult to find an authentic position from which to express art and take your stand as a personality when you feel culturally rootless and historically ungrounded.” (03/24/26)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/24/the-only-worthwhile-western-culture-is-that-which-opposes-the-western-empire/

Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman

“Over the weekend Donald Trump threatened dire vengeance on Iran unless its government opened the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours …. But at 7:05 AM Monday Trump called the whole thing off — for five days, he said, but many people are assuming that the threatened action, which would have been a massive war crime, is now off the table. … Trump’s sudden climb-down was startling. Who could have seen this coming? The answer is, the person or people who bought large quantities of stock market futures and sold large quantities of oil futures around 15 minutes before Trump’s announcement.” [editor’s note: Treason is constitutionally defined, and insider trading isn’t it – TLK] (03/24/26)

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in-the-futures-markets

Source: The Dispatch
by Patrick G Eddington

“Section 702 authorizes the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect communications of non-U.S. persons located abroad without a warrant. However, because of the structure of the global telecommunications system, the text messages, phone calls, and other digital data of people in the United States are invariably captured during FISA Section 702 collection activities. That information is stored in databases that are queried by the NSA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and even some Central Intelligence Agency personnel — all without having to obtain a warrant from a federal judge before conducting such searches. The prior abuses of such Section 702 collection and warrantless database querying are well documented. This month, a bipartisan group of senators introduced a 116-page bill—the Security and Freedom Enhancement (SAFE) Act — ostensibly designed to bring an end to nearly 20 years of constitutional rights violations under Section 702.” (03/24/26)

https://thedispatch.com/article/fisa-section-702-surveillance-intelligence/

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Claus Wiemann Frølund

“Critics of markets often argue that capitalism systematically fails consumers. Firms collude, corporations exploit their power, and powerful companies crush competitors. But there is a curious pattern in these critiques: regardless of what actually happens in the marketplace, the outcome is treated as proof that markets are broken.” (03/24/26)

https://mises.org/power-market/heads-i-win-tails-you-lose-when-every-market-outcome-called-failure