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Takimag Debasing Times Inflation damages more than the pocketbook. TakiMag I never listen to the radio except by accident, as when, unavoidably, I overhear it; for, as Josh Billings said, it’s better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so. People sometimes ask me how I get my information, then, to which I answer that I don’t really know: Most of it seems to come directly from the zeitgeist. I am not even sure how important it is for me to be informed, since my influence on world affairs seems hitherto to have been—how can I put this without…

The Iran war is damaging America’s influence around the world and exacerbating tensions with countries already whipsawed by President Donald Trump’s second term — an erosion of power that could be tough to reverse as U.S. adversaries such as China take advantage. Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

The Man Who Priced Gold for 200 Years Most people recognize Sir Issac Newton for his work on gravity, but in 1717, he was more than a great scientist. He was Master of the Royal Mint of England, and he had a problem to solve: What should an ounce of gold be worth in British pounds? Newton sat down, did the math, and set the price at 3 pounds, 17 shillings, and 10.5 pence per troy ounce. He did not form a committee… There was no press conference to shape “perception.” And no models were built on assumptions about “inflation…

The ceasefire expires Wednesday. Iran has fired on tankers, opened and closed the Strait of Hormuz within hours, and rejected Washington’s core demands. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, not Iran’s civilian government, is calling the shots. And a senior US official confirmed this week what the numbers have shown all along: "Iran has no money. They’re broke. We know it. And they know we know it." Source link

Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Don’t worry if you end up in a tough spot this week, everything will be alright. If hosting the NFL draft or getting drafted seems like a great deal to you, I’m sorry to say those two things are not as glorious as they seem. Keep reading to find out why. We’ll close with some thoughts on the shockingly high prices being charged for transit and parking at the World Cup. Don’t miss sports coverage from Jason Russell and Reason. An ESPN version of Jeopardy! is apparently in the works, with Joe Buck…

From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Keir Starmer has followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance. He knows far more than he lets on. It’s the reason, after all, why he was knighted. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in June 2025. (No. 10 Downing/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) By Jonathan CookJonathan-Cook.net Sir Keir Starmer must be the most ignorant man ever to have entered high office. Here are a few highlights: * As Director of Public Prosecutions, Starmer was apparently never consulted on his office’s decision, in late 2009, not to prosecute prolific, and highly connected, paedophile Jimmy Savile, despite Savile being one of the…

It is part of the Communist doctrine and drillbook, laid down by Lenin himself, that Communists should aid all movements towards the Left and help into office weak Constitutional, Radical, or Socialist Governments. These they should undermine, and from their falling hands snatch absolute power, and found the Marxist State. In fact, a perfect reproduction of the Kerensky period in Russia was taking place in-Spain. – Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm (p. 256) Watch on X Rumble Odysee BitChute Spotify Source link

Islamabad’s verdant cityscape merges with the Margalla Hills. Ali Mujtaba – CC BY-SA 4.0 The collapse of the U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad this week, followed swiftly by Washington’s announcement of a maritime blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, has been widely framed as a return to the familiar patterns of the maximum pressure era. Yet, to view these events solely through the lens of a bilateral failure is to miss a more profound structural shift in global diplomacy. Although the negotiations may have stalled after 21 hours of grueling deliberation between JD Vance and Abbas Araghchi, the venue and the process revealed a significant reality: the…

The mullahs and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are driven by fervent Islamic fundamentalism. Donald Trump’s opponents have shifted the focus from the existential threat posed by their ideology, weapons, and indiscriminate attacks on civilians across the Middle East to transient oil price spikes and Trump’s alleged derangement. Although most Muslims are not Islamists (militant Islamic fundamentalists), all Islamists are Muslims. Because of immigration and fertility rates, the Muslim population in Europe and the United States has exploded, exceeding 50 million in the EU (about 8% of the EU’s population), and 4 million in the United States. Pew projects Muslims will…

In his second inaugural address, President Donald Trump pledged to crack down on illegal immigration: “All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.” The administration set a minimum goal of 3,000 deportations per day. There was a problem. At the time, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operated or contracted with more than 200 disparate facilities across the country, from federal detention centers to county jails, and it had the resources to detain only about 41,000 people at a time.…