The Price of Decency

Silhouette of a person juggling four balls in an open field at sunrise.

Free trade, as practiced, rewards the dirtiest hands and punishes the cleanest. A Border Adjustment Tax flips that script—charging nations for the damage they export along with their goods. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start: a market where the cheapest product finally pays the real price of its making.

NOPEC’s last battle

Two brown goats locking horns in a tense head-to-head clash, symbolising a stubborn, evenly matched struggle.

In 1973, OPEC discovered the oil lever — a weapon that could make the world tremble without firing a shot. For decades, it worked. But every empire rots from within. Addiction to easy money, the rise of shale, and the limits of fear have left the cartel fighting a final, unwinnable war.