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Fergus Hodgson

Fergus Hodgson is the founder and executive editor of Latin American intelligence publication Antigua Report. He is also the roving editor of Gold Newsletter, and the managing editor of the American Institute for Economic Research.

Venezuela’s Rightful President Needs White House Support

The United States and its allies hold the key to Venezuela's recovery after two decades of socialist devastation. ...

Viewpoints January 19, 2019
Nobody Is an Employee in the Gig Economy

A small number of rideshare drivers want to shoot themselves and their colleagues in the foot. Their lawsuits ...

Viewpoints January 10, 2019
Pentagon Must Put Up or Shut Up After Audit Failure

"Duty, honor, country" is the motto of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. Contrast that ...

Viewpoints December 20, 2018
How Canada Protects Sharia Law

If you denounce Sharia law in a public fashion, you will suffer. Outside of the Arab world, this ...

Viewpoints December 20, 2018
Competitive Currencies Can Check Fed Privilege

Commentary Those who criticize and want to bypass the Federal Reserve must put their money where their mouth ...

Viewpoints December 8, 2018
STEM Subjects Dogma Has Undermined Soft Skills

Federal officials struggle to categorize the programs to promote science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), but they sure ...

Viewpoints November 27, 2018
San Francisco’s War on Airbnb Is a War on the Free Market

The most ingenious arbiter of resource allocation is under attack around the globe: market pricing. In the cross ...

Viewpoints November 13, 2018
Vast Chinese Meddling Abroad Exposed in Report by Canadian Policy Institute

In the wake of a meticulous, courageous, and damning policy report by a Canadian think tank, the Chinese Communist ...

Viewpoints November 7, 2018
Trump Gets Bolsonaro Boost From Brazil in Duel With China

In 2009, China surpassed the United States as Brazil’s leading trade partner, but that is likely to reverse ...

Americas October 30, 2018
The Deep Stater Undermining Trump in Central America

Todd Robinson is famous in Guatemala but not in the United States. With Central America's problems walking north ...

Viewpoints October 26, 2018
Migrant Caravan Dishonors Honduras

Honduran migrants may say, "We are fleeing criminality and violence." Yet, the migrant caravan has proceeded to smash ...

Viewpoints October 23, 2018
The Fed Needs Its Wings Clipped

Commentary "It's a false economy that we're living in. We're in a bubble." The man who said that, ...

Federal Reserve October 17, 2018
Argentina Uber Vandals Are Just That: Vandals

When María Carolina Roldan found her car burned and destroyed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she lost more than ...

Opinion October 16, 2018
How Trump Can Make America Even Freer

There is one way President Donald Trump can prove beyond a doubt American exceptionalism in the land of ...

Viewpoints October 9, 2018
The Cure for the Opioid Epidemic

Idle hands are the devil's playground, and opioids are wreaking havoc on the unemployed underclass of the United ...

Viewpoints October 2, 2018
Venezuelan Regime Deploys Cryptocurrency to Evade US Sanctions

Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro announced key changes to the government-backed cryptocurrency called the petro on Oct. 1, adding ...

Americas October 2, 2018
A Little School Choice Goes a Long Way

In a field as pivotal for the future as K-12 education, you could be forgiven for assuming teachers, ...

Viewpoints September 19, 2018
The Soul of America in a Movie

What legalese conceals, a heart-wrenching film reveals. Not only does the 2017 film "Little Pink House" show why ...

Viewpoints September 11, 2018
Canada Must Join Trump Train or Fall Further Behind

Fresh research offers ominous news for Canada. An index of labor-market performance across U.S. states and Canadian provinces ...

Viewpoints September 4, 2018
Six Reasons Why Venezuela Still Has Socialism

The undeniable crisis in Venezuela and the largest mass exodus in Latin-American history has led socialists to contend ...

Viewpoints August 27, 2018
Latin America’s Version of the EU Is Useless

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but a pen doesn't do much good in a knife ...

Viewpoints August 21, 2018
Brazil Has Not Learned Its Lesson

Just when you think Brazil has turned the corner and rejected a corrupt political class, you find out ...

Viewpoints August 13, 2018
Why Obrador Will Make Mexico More Corrupt

Cracks have already appeared for Mexican president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). While his inauguration is still four ...

Viewpoints August 6, 2018
Trump’s Demands Are for Canada’s Own Good

The "great white hope" wants to liberate the Great White North, and he may be just the man ...

Viewpoints July 26, 2018
Argentina Needs an Amputation

The Argentine peso has lost a third of its value relative to the U.S. dollar in the space ...

Economies July 14, 2018
Latin America, Not Trump, to Blame for Migrant Crisis

Sensationalist media reports, which bring more heat than light, distract us from an important yet oft-ignored truth: Latin ...

Viewpoints July 1, 2018
A Plan to Crush MS-13

The first chairman of the Texas Society to Abolish Capital Punishment had an exception to his ardent advocacy: ...

Viewpoints June 19, 2018

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