Power & Market

Paul notes that, at the time, the US gold reserves had not been audited in any form in 25 years. That was 2011, and there has still been no audit.

High inflation spurred Donald Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris last November. The economy was the top issue for most voters, and inflation was the top economic issue. As Biden’s partner in economic crime, Harris could not escape the blame for the torpedoing of the dollar’s value.

The United States needs a spending chainsaw, like Milei implemented in Argentina. Milei proved that drastic cuts can be implemented without hurting the economy.

The idea that high-ranking military officers are “apolitical” is as absurd as the claim that the US Supreme Court is apolitical, or that the Federal Reserve System is apolitical.

Writes “GS”, in response to recent articles on federal contractors and federal employees: 

Thus far, DOGE has introduced the American public to countless examples of wasteful spending. Unsurprisingly, the benefactors of the system see this as a great injustice.

Tariffs block the entrepreneurial discovery process that is essential for progress. Tariffs and protectionist policies are damaging in all respects.

Whatever the case, what the Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act translates to is another example of an egregious overstep in government authority.

President Grant‘s efforts to annex Santo Domingo were, in part, a last gasp of earlier Republican efforts to send freed slaves off to “colonies” in Central America.

As Mises and other Austrian economists have reminded us, government cannot “invest” profitably because it directs funds toward ventures that were not chosen by voluntary investors.