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/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/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/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 https://www.themintmagazine.com/from-safe-haven-investment-to-geostrategic-weapon-who-owns-the-most-gold-and-where-are-the-bars-kept/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/from-safe-haven-investment-to-geostrategic-weapon-who-owns-the-most-gold-and-where-are-the-bars-kept/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:20:33 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136462

Gold has been a symbol of wealth for thousands of years. While humans have used all sorts of instruments as money (salt, coins, banknotes, or now, algorithms), no asset even … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/from-safe-haven-investment-to-geostrategic-weapon-who-owns-the-most-gold-and-where-are-the-bars-kept/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/lebanese-cabinet-approves-a-draft-law-to-return-funds-wiped-out-with-the-2019-collapse-of-banks/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/lebanese-cabinet-approves-a-draft-law-to-return-funds-wiped-out-with-the-2019-collapse-of-banks/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:17:05 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136463

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Cabinet on Friday approved a draft law to determine the extent of losses suffered by Lebanese banks during the country’s financial meltdown in 2019 and provide a mechanism to return … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/lebanese-cabinet-approves-a-draft-law-to-return-funds-wiped-out-with-the-2019-collapse-of-banks/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/budget-tax-rises-to-be-overshadowed-by-bank-of-england-bond-sales-and-losses/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/budget-tax-rises-to-be-overshadowed-by-bank-of-england-bond-sales-and-losses/#respond Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:05:14 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=134297

The £78bn cumulative tax rises announced by the chancellor in today’s budget risk being wiped out by the £112bn worth of losses the Bank of England due to its active … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/budget-tax-rises-to-be-overshadowed-by-bank-of-england-bond-sales-and-losses/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/crypto-market-crash-hits-trump-family-wiping-out-1-billion-of-their-fortune/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/crypto-market-crash-hits-trump-family-wiping-out-1-billion-of-their-fortune/#respond Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:03:02 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=134299

In just over a month, the crypto market has lost $1.2 trillion in value. The steady declines since mid-October have erased much of the gains received by both small and … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/crypto-market-crash-hits-trump-family-wiping-out-1-billion-of-their-fortune/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/japan-oks-135-billion-stimulus-package-to-help-revive-its-sluggish-economy/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/japan-oks-135-billion-stimulus-package-to-help-revive-its-sluggish-economy/#respond Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:49:55 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133965

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet approved a 21.3 trillion yen ($135.4 billion) stimulus package Friday to help spur the economy through expansionary government spending and to relieve the impact of … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/japan-oks-135-billion-stimulus-package-to-help-revive-its-sluggish-economy/feed/ 0