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.
In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln offered an interpretation of the Declaration of Independence. In this week’s column, I’m going to examine that interpretation. The matter is of more than a little importance, because the address has become part of the American “civil religion” and those who support this religion want to require all Americans to unite in accepting it.
Powell caves to administration pressure and predicts rate cuts. Meanwhile, asset prices soar on the news of more inflation.
[Inflation and the Family: Monetary Policy’s Impact on Household Life by Jeffrey L. Degner. (Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2025; 242 pp.)]
