[America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War by H.W. Brands (Doubleday Books, 2024; 444 pp.)]

The gold price is off and running this week. But, money creation isn’t listed as a cause, instead, “Policy volatility is off the charts, and it’s especially emanating from the White House,” said Johan Jooste, chief executive officer at Pangaea Wealth AG. “The policies look to be either accidentally or deliberately dollar-weakening, which is a positive for gold.”

The images are hard to watch: A young woman, Iryna Zarutska—a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee—is sitting in her seat on the Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail, engrossed in her phone as she is riding home after work. A black male, Decarlos Brown, sits behind her and he suddenly stands up and quickly stabs her with a large pocketknife.

Testimony of Alex J. Pollock, Senior Fellow, Mises Institute

To the Task Force on Monetary Policy, Treasury Market Resilience, and Economic Prosperity, Of the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives

Hearing on “Less Mandates. More Independence.”

September 17, 2025

How Congress Should Oversee the Federal Reserve’s Mandates

Judge Napolitano: We cannot support the president’s extrajudicial killings and also claim to take the Constitution seriously. 

Asset prices are near all-time highs, but the Fed cuts rates to pad the wealth of Wall Street, and to please the Trump administration. 

Sec. of War Pete Hegseth says that the U.S. is “going to go on offense, not just on defense.”