…hostile deployments of American armed forces in foreign wars. As of one week ago, the site forecast: The 2016 Bread and Peace model predicts a victory for Hillary Clinton with…

…wants to claim that the Bush tax cuts, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Great Recession, the Mediocre Recovery, whatever the heck happened in Libya, or Obamacare was inevitable….

…during his presidency, the drone wars. Data on this is not all that available, but thebureauinvestigates has some estimates for whatever the are worth. In 2016 Yemen was second after…

…such atrocities. Truth to tell, nobody in the US really has a firm and unbiased grasp of what is going on. If this sounds like the vast majority of wars…

…then human sacrifice could easily have been seen as offering them that advantage. “Their primitive world was full of dangers, suffering, and nasty surprises, including plagues, famines, and wars. It…

…wars is easy to see. It’s heartening to me to see the European Union has finally changed its policy, given that I have written mostly positive things about state aid…

…jobs from one another, but don’t hold your breath on it happening anytime soon even though the negative-sum nature of inter-state border wars is easy to see. It’s heartening to…

Sandwichman in the FT Financial Times: “The minimum wage wars are heating up: A new study fails to prove its claim that Seattle wage floor hurts workers” by Martin Sandbu,…

…problem, just as in the 1980s, is that as long as individual states do not coordinate their bidding (as happens in the European Union), the dynamic of bidding wars will…

…had very low unemployment rates and thus greater bargaining power than otherwise. Without EU-style rules to restrict bidding wars, there was a high probability of Foxconn hitting the jackpot. With…