“President Donald Trump scooped up shares of surveillance-state software maker Palantir weeks before he famously praised the stock on Truth Social.”

Despite the fact that the government owes firms refunds due to Trump’s tariffs being declared illegal, companies are turning down the opportunity in fear of angering the president.

Finn Andreen recently wrote a Mises Wire article arguing that the values characterized as universally-applicable to all mankind by Enlightenment-era philosophers—notably political values like juridical equality, political freedom, natural rights, and religious tolerance—are not universal at all, but rather are mere expressions of Western culture, thus making assertions of such universality (and thus any claims of moral

Auction bidders are demanding higher fixed rates as compensation for the risk that inflation—stoked by rising energy prices since the U.S. attacked Iran in late February—will accelerate further. 

Twice a year, the Federal Reserve releases its Financial Stability Report. According to the Fed:

This report presents the Federal Reserve Board’s current assessment of the stability of the U.S. financial system.

The Federal Reserve is at the center of the pure paper money system of the United States and the world. As the Fed transitions to a new chairman, it is timely to consider some questions about this remarkable, powerful, dangerous, and allegedly “independent” institution. Here are seven questions for the new chairman, Kevin Warsh, and his colleagues:

Do we need a national price fixing committee for interest rates?

Answer: No.

[Defending Southern Heritage: A Series of Letters and Essays in Response to Enemy Attacks by Jeff Paulk (Southern Vindicator Press, 2026; vii + 530pp.)]