https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:05:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-The-Mint-Coin-32x32.jpg https://www.themintmagazine.com 32 32 https://www.themintmagazine.com/argentinas-milei-heads-to-the-us-again-balancing-trump-ties-with-growing-china-trade/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/argentinas-milei-heads-to-the-us-again-balancing-trump-ties-with-growing-china-trade/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:00:38 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=142306

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s President Javier Milei set off Wednesday for his 14th trip to the United States to take part in the inaugural session of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/argentinas-milei-heads-to-the-us-again-balancing-trump-ties-with-growing-china-trade/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/not-just-oil-the-venezuela-invasion-is-about-preserving-the-petrodollar/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/not-just-oil-the-venezuela-invasion-is-about-preserving-the-petrodollar/#respond Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:52:13 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=141659

“We don’t need Venezuela’s oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States,” the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, told an NBC interviewer the day after US troops snatched … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/not-just-oil-the-venezuela-invasion-is-about-preserving-the-petrodollar/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/canadas-carney-hails-new-trade-deals-expects-us-to-respect-sovereignty/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/canadas-carney-hails-new-trade-deals-expects-us-to-respect-sovereignty/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:00:26 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=140334

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has hailed several new trade agreements, pledging to further diversify Ottawa’s partners while saying he “expects” the United States to respect his country’s sovereignty. Carney … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/canadas-carney-hails-new-trade-deals-expects-us-to-respect-sovereignty/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/can-cities-make-landlords-care-about-energy-efficiency/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/can-cities-make-landlords-care-about-energy-efficiency/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:50:10 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=140335

With the federal government retreating from climate action, cities and states have increasingly stepped in to ease emissions and address the crisis. But new research finds that those efforts often … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/can-cities-make-landlords-care-about-energy-efficiency/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/why-trump-isnt-worried-about-a-weaker-dollar-as-markets-and-the-ecb-grow-uneasy/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/why-trump-isnt-worried-about-a-weaker-dollar-as-markets-and-the-ecb-grow-uneasy/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:46:42 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=140333

The tectonic ruptures in geopolitics triggered by Donald Trump are reverberating in the currency market, just as they did nine months ago with the trade war. This week, the dollar … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/why-trump-isnt-worried-about-a-weaker-dollar-as-markets-and-the-ecb-grow-uneasy/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/us-eu-economic-ties-show-why-neither-side-can-decouple/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/us-eu-economic-ties-show-why-neither-side-can-decouple/#respond Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:20:52 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=139139

US President Donald Trump argues that the US economy is disadvantaged in global markets and wants to reduce the trade deficit through tariffs. Taken together, the 27 member states of the European Union form the United States’ largest … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/us-eu-economic-ties-show-why-neither-side-can-decouple/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/trumps-greenland-ambitions-strain-maga-ties-with-europes-far-right/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/trumps-greenland-ambitions-strain-maga-ties-with-europes-far-right/#respond Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:14:12 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=139131

Tensions over U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans to take control of Greenland have driven a wedge in the once iron-clad link between MAGA and Europe’s far-right. The rift seems to signal that ideological alignment … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/trumps-greenland-ambitions-strain-maga-ties-with-europes-far-right/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/regenerative-agriculture-finally-has-a-seat-at-the-table-at-usda/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/regenerative-agriculture-finally-has-a-seat-at-the-table-at-usda/#respond Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:37:16 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=138423

 Something unusual and long overdue recently took place at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Two regenerative agriculture pioneers, Rick Clark of Indiana and Blake Alexander of California, stood alongside … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/regenerative-agriculture-finally-has-a-seat-at-the-table-at-usda/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/ohio-utility-corruption-defendants-to-scotus-bribes-are-free-speech/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/ohio-utility-corruption-defendants-to-scotus-bribes-are-free-speech/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:01:09 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=137537

The only two individuals who have stood trial for their role in the largest utility corruption scandal in Ohio’s history have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review their cases … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/ohio-utility-corruption-defendants-to-scotus-bribes-are-free-speech/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-epstein-opened-doors-to-netanyahu-and-ehud-barak-amid-israels-offshore-gas-fight/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-epstein-opened-doors-to-netanyahu-and-ehud-barak-amid-israels-offshore-gas-fight/#respond Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:07:30 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136885

On December 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a $35 billion deal to sell natural gas to Egypt in what officials describe as the largest energy export agreement in … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-epstein-opened-doors-to-netanyahu-and-ehud-barak-amid-israels-offshore-gas-fight/feed/ 0