Power & Market

The US Bancorp tower in downtown Portland is now half empty, with the bank, while leaving its name on the building, relocating most of its employees.

Can Trump and Musk “make up” and find a way to work together in the future?

Protectionism really isn‘t a theory of betterment for all but a claim that certain people in certain occupations are special. They must be paid more handsomely than the market—meaning you and me—wishes to pay. It will be big business and big labor who will be the beneficiaries of tariffs.

Freddie Mac’s delinquency report shows delinquencies above the Great-Recession peak. April's delinquency rate was the highest in 14 years.

The 19th century saw the creation and expansion of railroads in the United States, which hauled freight and carried paying passengers. One offshoot from privately-owned railroads was the creation of company-built and -operated hospitals to treat their employees in remote locations.

Critics of the Free State Project should direct animosity, not at those moving to their state, but to the other 49 states for failing to be freer. The Free State Project migrants are not moving to New Hampshire to exert coercion on the existing population, but to live under less coercion.

Traffic jams are so frequent that many Costa Ricans have adjusted their routines to deal with this phenomenon, treating it like a chronic illness.

The Federal Reserve System released its May 2025 Beige Book yesterday, and the Fed has stopped painting a cheerful picture of the US economy.

Government involvement in our lives is getting more entrenched since Trump took office. He campaigned on the opposite. The result will be economic stagnation, recessions, or even depressions. To ensure a strong economy, government should get out of the way.

Donald Trump’s allies at Palantir, a parasitic “private” company funded by tax dollars and created by the CIA, have taken a beating in the media in