The Elephant Bar

From The Daily Beast Don’t call me a “declinist.” I really don’t believe the United States—or Western civilization, more generally—is in...

Something very ugly is happening with currencies and to this observer, it looks like the beginning stages of competitive devaluation. The pr...

Trade and globalization: We are what we buy and how we buy it Trade and globalization — the rules governing what we buy and sell — are now p...

This is a long clip, but worthy of a listen while you do something else. I have followed Niall Ferguson for some time and he is no fool. He ...

"In the pre-historic state, men were designed to regard other men, the 'other', with considerable suspicion and hostility… It...