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/ma-jun-no-business-interest-in-chinese-coal-power-due-to-cheaper-renewables/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/ma-jun-no-business-interest-in-chinese-coal-power-due-to-cheaper-renewables/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:57:13 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=142308

Ma – one of China’s most recognisable environmental activists – says that early experiments with publishing real-time air quality data have paved the way for greater openness from the Chinese … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/ma-jun-no-business-interest-in-chinese-coal-power-due-to-cheaper-renewables/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/what-is-palantir-how-a-us-spytech-firm-penetrated-the-british-state/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/what-is-palantir-how-a-us-spytech-firm-penetrated-the-british-state/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:55:39 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=142305

A US spytech firm deeply embedded in the most sensitive areas of the British state is being scrutinised as part of the fallout from the latest tranche of documents related … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/what-is-palantir-how-a-us-spytech-firm-penetrated-the-british-state/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/trump-drops-key-us-climate-rule-swaps-health-for-cheap-cars/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/trump-drops-key-us-climate-rule-swaps-health-for-cheap-cars/#respond Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:50:26 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=141662

In what the White House has described as the “largest deregulatory action in American history,” President Donald Trump has undone a key scientific finding that has been the cornerstone of United States efforts to fight climate change for more than 16 years. … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/trump-drops-key-us-climate-rule-swaps-health-for-cheap-cars/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/tiktoks-addictive-design-features-fall-foul-of-eus-digital-rules/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/tiktoks-addictive-design-features-fall-foul-of-eus-digital-rules/#respond Sat, 07 Feb 2026 02:47:48 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=140880

The Commission found Chinese video-sharing app TikTok’s addictive design features breach the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA) in a preliminary decision on Friday. If the findings are confirmed, the EU … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/tiktoks-addictive-design-features-fall-foul-of-eus-digital-rules/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/that-ends-now-german-court-ruling-raises-pressure-to-fix-stalled-climate-plans/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/that-ends-now-german-court-ruling-raises-pressure-to-fix-stalled-climate-plans/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:43:41 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=140336

Climate groups in Germany are celebrating a major legal victory after the country’s top court ruled that the federal government must strengthen climate protection plans. On Thursday, 29 January, the administrative … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/that-ends-now-german-court-ruling-raises-pressure-to-fix-stalled-climate-plans/feed/ 0