Author: Alexander G Rubio

There’s a tantalising spectre haunting modern U.S. and international politics. In the painfully drawn out final months of the Bush presidency, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find anyone, outside of the...

The Republican Party in the United States claims to represent the Conservative movement. But while Conservatism is usually defined by empiricism, a deep distrust of revolutionary ventures, and basing decisions on the world, and...

There is a Shakespearean tragic quality to the fate of Senator John McCain which is missing from his one time rival for the Presidency of the United States, George W. Bush. Bush’s dominant character traits, whether plain...

Will the Iraq war end, and US interventions in the Middle East come to a close with the exit of President George W Bush from the world stage? No. That die was cast long ago, when cities like Los Angeles were built the way they...

(Click for larger image)”Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon,” economist Milton Friedman once said. Whether the symptom was rising wages, rising prices, booming assets, inflating housing prices,...