Category: Economy

Online Shopping: Charting The Holiday Surge Online Shopping: Charting The Holiday Surge In the fourth quarter of 2023, online shopping was a record-breaking 17% of all retail sales. Put another way, one out of every six dollars was spent online. This graphic from Visual Capitalist’s Jenna Ross, in partnership with BGO, highlights the spike in ecommerce …

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Global South's Energy Rebellion At COP29 Signals A New Future Global South’s Energy Rebellion At COP29 Signals A New Future Authored by Vijay Jayaraj via RealClearWire, The climate movement’s annual showpiece, the United Nation’s Conference of Parties (COP), held this year in Baku, Azerbaijan, has been exposed to an unprecedented level of disinterest—even dissent—from developing nations. Leaders of …

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Provoked: The Long Train Of Abuses That Culminated In The Ukraine War Provoked: The Long Train Of Abuses That Culminated In The Ukraine War Authored by Carus Michaelangelo via The Mises Institute, [Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, by Scott Horton, The Libertarian Institute, 2024; 690 …

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When Rights Become Privileges: Is The Constitution Becoming Optional? When Rights Become Privileges: Is The Constitution Becoming Optional? Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a ‘Bill of Temporary Privileges.’ And if …

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East Vs. West: A Global Dollar Dump Is Inevitable And The US Must Prepare East Vs. West: A Global Dollar Dump Is Inevitable And The US Must Prepare Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, In October of 2024, Russia hosted the annual BRICS Summit in the city of Kazan with the intent to show unity …

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Here's What Has To Happen To Prevent Post-Assad Syria From Collapsing Here’s What Has To Happen To Prevent Post-Assad Syria From Collapsing Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, The epic collapse of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) over the past ten days and Assad’s cowardly flight from Damascus early Sunday morning herald the dawn of …

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Escobar: The Syria Tragedy & The New Omni-War Escobar: The Syria Tragedy & The New Omni-War Authored by Pepe Escobar, Until recently, a serious geopolitical working hypothesis was that West Asia and Ukraine were two vectors of the standard Hegemon modus operandi, which is to incite and unleash Forever Wars. Now both wars are united …

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From Marcus Aurelius To Omar Little: A Man's Code Is Vital From Marcus Aurelius To Omar Little: A Man’s Code Is Vital Authored by Josh Stylman via The Brownstone Institute, With Thanksgiving weekend still fresh in our memory, my gratitude centers not on the usual holiday platitudes, but on something that has become increasingly precious …

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Is World War III Already Here? Is World War III Already Here? Authored by Jay Solomon via The FP.com, The ‘Axis of Upheaval‘ is on the march—and the U.S. must figure out how to respond. If it feels like the world is on fire right now, that’s because it is. From Ukraine to Syria to …

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Underwater Geopolitics Underwater Geopolitics Authored by Carlo J.V.Caro via RealClearWire.com, How China’s Control of Undersea Cables and Data Flows Reshapes Global Power Cable Routing Protocols The rapid construction of undersea cables has brought a hidden but crucial issue into focus: the manipulation of the protocols that control how data travels beneath the sea. These protocols …

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