Investing in Gold: It Makes Sense when Inflation Is High
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.”
Anarcho-Tyranny and Danger in Public Spaces
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.
How Congress Should Oversee the Federal Reserve’s Mandates
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
Napolitano: Taking the Constitution Seriously
Judge Napolitano: We cannot support the president’s extrajudicial killings and also claim to take the Constitution seriously.
FOMC cuts target interest rate by 25 basis points
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.
Trump completes his transformation to a “war president”
Sec. of War Pete Hegseth says that the U.S. is “going to go on offense, not just on defense.”
True Privatization
The regression theorem demonstrates, as a praxeological law, that money must originate as a marketable commodity before it can evolve into a widely-accepted medium of exchange. Yet what is often missed is that this theorem—logically derived from the axiom of action—has broader implications for the genesis of all social institutions.
Are Tariffs Good for American Workers?
President Trump says that tariffs are good for American workers. He claims that because tariffs raise costs on products manufactured abroad, they will make it feasible for American firms to make these goods here. Economists who oppose tariffs argue that free trade is more “efficient” than protectionism, but what they ignore is that this alleged “efficiency” comes at the expense of American workers. We are Americans, and we should follow an “America First” policy.