On Friday, six weeks after a deadline that was reluctantly signed into law by Trump, the Department of Justice released over 3 million documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The drop caused a lot of discourse online over the weekend as journalists and investigators began poring through the documents.

Gold’s price dropped from close to $5,600 to less than $4,500 on Monday. Silver plunged 31.4% on Friday alone.

For the past month, Americans have been wondering whether President Trump will attack Iran, or whether the massive military build-up in the Middle East is just another bluff. President Trump claims that the decision is his alone to make.

We have been here before – the Fed monetizing a productivity surge. There are two important differences this time, though, full of danger. No wonder the dollar and gold are emitting stark red warning signals.

Labor divided into the production of different goods or even into various tasks involved in the production of a single good is one of the earliest observations on the nature of human civilization. From a scientific point of view, civilization or society is the division of labor. Unfortunately, opinion down through time mistakenly considers it a mixed blessing, indicating that it is a great force for both good and evil.

I don’t know who introduced the idea that the market is something egocentric and perverse, but it has distorted its meaning. Originally, those who spoke about the market were not “economists” but—like those of the School of Salamanca—theologians and moral philosophers, or—like Adam Smith—who dedicated himself to moral philosophy.