Power & Market

In February of 2023, as price inflation soared above six percent, and only a few months earlier hit a forty-year high, a columnist at the Wall Stre

Foreign direct aid has failed to alleviate worldwide poverty. Nations with secure property rights have prospered.

The late Burt Blumert once told me “in tough times fortunes change hands.”  For some, that time has come. 

Profits aren’t immoral—they’re necessary. Just as organisms need a net energy surplus to live, societies need profits to sustain themselves.

The latest bogus narrative of this sort comes from one of my readers who is convinced that Trump is right in denouncing those central bankers who inflate too little.

Those who hoped the second Trump administration would reject big spending, war, and restrictions on liberty continue to be disappointed. Prepare for another disappointment—REAL ID law.

President Trump is considering paying mothers $5000 per childbirth. The rationale behind this proposal is obvious.

The government has been with us in the shower! The simple everyday annoyance created by government will now likely be heard by the Supreme Court.

Fiat money and state coercion have prevented us from seeing the threat to our well-being that would be apparent with sound money and true liberty.

The bond market is sending a message to the US government that its spending is out of control.