Michael Maharrey writes that gold and silver were in use historically much earlier than what was originally believed.

If in January 2018 you found yourself on the islands of Hawaii for a relaxing holiday, your winter break might have taken a turn not unlike the wildest apocalyptic Hollywood movie depictions.

In his introduction to F.W. Taussig’s Tariff History of the United States, David Chalmers observes that debates about protective tariffs are often politically fraught. This is not surprising, given the overtly political goal of protective tariffs. Chalmers describes protectionist tariffs as designed,

If we are to take the official unemployment rate as the final word on the employment situation—as Fed Chairman Jerome Powell instructed us to at last month’s FOMC press conference— then we’re likely to conclude that the job market is still red hot.

Bolton is a leading cheerleader for the modern American surveillance state and for endless intervention abroad. 

Steve Hanke dissects Trump’s tariffs, trade tensions, and India’s big test

Steve Hanke is a Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Mises Institute and a Professor of Applied Economics at the Johns Hopkins University. He can be followed on X @steve_hanke.

Given David Gordon’s recent talk on the subject of the foreign policy recommendations, the great historian Charles A.