The Hidden Cost of Disengagement
Why U.S. Retrenchment Fuels Economic Instability and Amplifies Authoritarianism
https://thenationaltelegraph.substack.com/p/the-hidden-cost-of-disengagement
Niall Ferguson Talks to Javier Milei
At the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, Argentina’s president explains his radical plan to make Argentina ‘the world’s freest country.’
“BUILDING IS VERY HARD. DESTROYING IS VERY EASY,” ARGENTINE PRESIDENT JAVIER MILEI TOLD NIALL FERGUSON.
The prerequisite for an economic miracle is an economic disaster. As I wrote in these pages late last month, Argentine president Javier Milei inherited just such a disaster from his Peronist predecessor in December 2023: a currency on the brink of hyperinflation, a contracting economy, a government reliant on the International Monetary Fund.
What he has achieved in the subsequent year and a half is one of the wonders of the world economy today. (Read here; it really is a miracle.)
But—as he himself acknowledged during our conversation last week at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires—it is too early to celebrate an Argentine economic miracle. Political obstacles remain, not just sustaining his achievement thus far, but also launching the next and crucial phase of ...
HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA:
Including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations
https://www.malone.news/p/hhs-winds-down-mrna-vaccine-development
The Linguistic Kill-Switch: Inside the Modern Propaganda Playbook
The next time someone sneers “conspiracy theorist,” “anti-vaxxer,” “climate denier,” “far right,” “hate speech,” “terrorist,” or the ever-popular “racist,” understand what they are really saying: stop thinking.
These words are a linguistic kill-switch—engineered to short-circuit thought by triggering a reflexive emotional spasm.
