On September 3, 2025, federal authorities announced that they had dismantled the pirated sports‑streaming empire known as Streameast.

If you’ve been paying attention to how jobs data is reported in this country, you know how the scam has worked over the past two years: first, release a very positive jobs numbers—often labeled a “blowout” jobs number. When this number comes out, the usual media “journalists” and finance pundits tell us all how totally amazing the US jobs market is.

Why do individuals value bread less than gold, when bread seems to be more important in supporting an individual’s life than gold? To provide an answer to this question, economists refer to the law of diminishing marginal utility.

A foundational principle in financial accounting, corporate finance, and corporate law is that—despite jurisdictional divergences—there exists a conceptual distinction between natural persons (human beings) and juridical persons.

New Yorkers appear to be on the cusp of electing a self-described socialist, Zohran Mamdani, as their next mayor.

In memory of Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945):

There is a Remnant there that you know nothing about. They are obscure, unorganized, inarticulate, each one rubbing along as best he can. They need to be encouraged and braced up because when everything has gone completely to the dogs, they are the ones who will come back and build up a new society; and meanwhile, your preaching will reassure them and keep them hanging on. Your job is to take care of the Remnant, so be off now and set about it.

Writing in Chronicles about his “alleged collaborators in infamy,” Paul Gottfried skewers the tendency to lump together all arguments with which one disagrees, and to treat them as if they were all essentially one and the same argument by dint of the fact that one opposes them all. For example, the “woke left” and “woke right” are lumped together as two types of “woke.” Critics of “woke” lump together paleoconservatives (the traditional right whom they classify as woke right) and critical theory Neo-Marxists (whom they classify as woke left).

For the first time since 1996, central banks’ foreign exchange holdings hold more gold than US Treasuries.