January 2026

COMMENT: We had a similar referendum past November initiated by the young extreme leftists for a 50% (!) inheritance tax for wealthy above $50m – despite the fact that we pay already a wealth tax every year! Well Swiss people realised that the billionaires have feets and can walk away similar to what you write […]

Great Britain has caved to Islamist radicals to such an extreme extent that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced it must limit its funding for universities in the United Kingdom. The Muslim Brotherhood is active in the UK as the government refuses to ban the radical group. The UAE is legitimately concerned that young men

The Department of Justice has opened a CRIMINAL investigation against Chairman Powell of the Federal Reserve. I have totally disagreed with trump on interest rates and he assumes that the Fed can just lower rates counter-trend to the world economy. I understand he is acting on what was taught in school under Keynesian Economics. But

Thank you, Commodity Culture, for naming me the “Guest of the Year” for the second consecutive year. Check out the “Interviews” page on the AE blog to tune into past media engagements.

  In the past few days, Iran has experienced the biggest protests against the ruling Islamic Republic since it crushed the 2022. The rial has fallen by more than 90%—but that dramatically understates the disaster. The real decline is closer to 97-98% depending on your baseline. The regime is the weakest it has ever been.

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 822.63 points or 1.61% to 51,939.89 • Shanghai increased 37.447 points or 0.92% to 4,120.426 • Hang Seng increased 82.48 points or 0.32% to 26,231.79 • ASX 200 decreased 3.00 points or -0.03% to 8,717.80 • SENSEX decreased 604.72 points

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday rejected the latest US-backed offering to end the Russia-Ukraine war, issuing a damming rebuff that illustrates that Putin would have to be insane to accept any peace deal at this stage in the game with Ukraine because it would NEVER resolve this conflict. Moscow’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs slammed

California imposed an exit tax for those wishing to flee the state, but with insufficient funding and desperation to maintain tax revenue, the state is considering legislation that would steal a portion of one’s net worth and redistribute it to social programs. The Billionaire Tax Act would impose a 5% tax on the total wealth