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Pension funds, savings accounts, and insurance funds — all essential middle class tools for savings — are seeing their yields dry up.

How is it possible for Millennials to favor both a socialist government and a capitalist economy? It is simple, they don't truly understand the concepts.

When we look at the federal debt as a percentage of tax revenues, the US is behind only Japan when it comes to debt loads.

The success of fantasy sports is an illustration of how capitalism unleashes innovation, and how government can manage to ruin anything it touches.

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The price of EpiPens has increased dramatically and many are calling for more regulation in health care.

As 2016's campaign unpleasantness has accelerated, many Americans were going through another often-unpleasant experience: back-to-school shopping.

The dollar's last tie to gold was severed 45 years ago. Gold had always been an inconvenience for governments looking for more debt and spending.

Starting today, the Royal Bank of Scotland will become the first bank in the U.K. to impose a negative interest rate on depositors.

Calling an arbitrary government-imposed penalty on carbon a "market cost" is a disingenuous as not calling such a plan a "tax."