https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:52:13 +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/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/lack-of-agroecological-funding-could-be-costing-us-our-future/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/lack-of-agroecological-funding-could-be-costing-us-our-future/#respond Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:50:59 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=141661

Over many decades, vast sums of money for innovation in farming including seeds, crop applications and new technologies has come from those large enterprises and organisations that can extract value … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/lack-of-agroecological-funding-could-be-costing-us-our-future/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-devils-butler-how-jeffrey-epstein-used-london-to-hide-in-plain-sight/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-devils-butler-how-jeffrey-epstein-used-london-to-hide-in-plain-sight/#respond Sat, 07 Feb 2026 02:56:15 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=140881

Much attention has focused on the famous names implicated in the sex trafficking network surrounding Epstein. But perhaps less has been paid to the very system that – legally and … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-devils-butler-how-jeffrey-epstein-used-london-to-hide-in-plain-sight/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/50-on-war-in-iran-how-geopolitical-bets-have-surged-on-polymarket-in-five-charts/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/50-on-war-in-iran-how-geopolitical-bets-have-surged-on-polymarket-in-five-charts/#respond Sat, 07 Feb 2026 02:51:06 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=140882

Want to bet on whether the U.S. will attack Iran? An increasing number of people are using Polymarket and similar online prediction markets to gamble on war and other geopolitical … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/50-on-war-in-iran-how-geopolitical-bets-have-surged-on-polymarket-in-five-charts/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/taxpayers-paid-to-send-mod-official-to-work-for-elite-bank-rothschild-co/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/taxpayers-paid-to-send-mod-official-to-work-for-elite-bank-rothschild-co/#respond Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:41:19 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=138422

Taxpayers paid for a Ministry of Defence official to spend almost a year working for an elite investment bank that’s seeking to increase the role of private finance in military … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/taxpayers-paid-to-send-mod-official-to-work-for-elite-bank-rothschild-co/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/italy-backs-historic-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/italy-backs-historic-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:03:21 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=137536

BRUSSELS (AP) — Italy on Friday gave crucial support to plans by the European Union to seal a huge free trade deal with five South American nations neighboring Venezuela that has been negotiated for over 25 … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/italy-backs-historic-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/ugandas-debt-crisis-deepens-ahead-of-elections/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/ugandas-debt-crisis-deepens-ahead-of-elections/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:59:31 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=137538

Uganda’s national debt stands at $32.3 billion (€27.5 billion), with the government recently approving a loan of 9 trillion Ugandan shillings ($2.5 billion, €2.1 billion), fueling concern over the country’s spiraling finances. For … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/ugandas-debt-crisis-deepens-ahead-of-elections/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-the-die-out-of-diet/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-the-die-out-of-diet/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:41:26 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136653

Henry Leveson-Gower and Dil Green map potential paths to escape the tyranny of Big Food. The modern food system delivers cheap calories at scale, but at the cost of health, … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-the-die-out-of-diet/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/meat-whats-the-beef-and-who-pays/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/meat-whats-the-beef-and-who-pays/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:31 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136386

Stephanie Walton herds the arguments around how stranded assets might be handled were the world to rein in its rampant carnivorousness to the point where the planet isn’t slaughtered. Over … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/meat-whats-the-beef-and-who-pays/feed/ 0