DANIEL VAUGHAN: The whisper of recession gets louder at the White House

• We’ve hit the part of the business cycle that every President wants to avoid. Business outlets are debating whether we’re about to deal with...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: History roars back with coming food catastrophe

• The Economist released an evocative cover to highlight “The coming food catastrophe.” Against a sky-blue background are three heads of wheat. The wheat grains...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: India’s wheat export ban sends world into food crisis

• We’re halfway through May, and the stories pointing towards more global food scarcity in the coming months will not diminish. The most concerning part of this...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: Tribalism and factions will never go away

• One of the recent fads of American political writing is describing the various ills of political tribalism. You can read this everywhere in modern...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: Ultra-MAGA isn’t the problem, Ultra-Biden is

• We’re going to learn what the latest inflation reports say this week for April. The White House has already announced they’re sending out Biden for a...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: Uncertainty rules the economy, which hurts Democratic chances in 2022

• I get that it’s popular at the moment for political consultants to tell cable television shows that abortion will race to the top of...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: White House wants to use food crisis for Green Agenda ends

• Over the weekend, Biden administration official Samantha Powers went on CBS Face the Nation. She described the administration’s efforts to get more aid to...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: We’re using food for fuel in a food shortage crisis

• “We’re on the precipice of a global food crisis,” according to GOYA Foods CEO Bob Unanue. It’s hard to put any more fine point on the...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: Europe sanctions Russia and foots the bill

• At the beginning of April, news reports emerged of a massacre in Bucha, Ukraine. Those reports showed signs of Russians executing men, women, and...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: The signs of a systemic global famine have arrived

• Long-time readers of this space know that I’ve warned that the world is in a dangerous position of entering a famine. First, skyrocketing prices for...