Power & Market

The language of “de-dollarization” conceals an authoritarian ambition: to replace one fiat empire with another.

Thanks to the sort of inflationary policy Trump prefers, it will take years to rebuild the economy on a stable foundation of saving and investment, rather than on mountains of easy-money-fueled bubbles.

Year-over-year drops in passenger traffic is well correlated with changes in the employment level, and passenger traffic fell for two months in a row.

If wealth could be created out of scraps of paper or their digital equivalent, world poverty would be a thing of the past. Remember, the commodity money takes care of itself—and us too, if we let it.

The abandonment of liberty because fear drives people to trust government promises of safety is a phenomenon we have witnessed several times this century.

Arbitrary and undefined terms like “fair wage” and “living wage” fundamentally misunderstand the nature of work how wages are determined.

Bitcoin and gold are now playing the essential role that central banks should be enforcing.

The negotiations weren’t going anywhere thanks to Trump’s maximalism, but Netanyahu didn’t want to take the chance that there might be a diplomatic breakthrough.

Dr. Hoppe‘s recent email correspondence with a New Yorker writer.

HIPAA was enacted in 1996 to protect the privacy of patient health information. In practice, HIPAA’s stringent requirements may harm patients, create a chilling effect on medical researchers and healthcare providers, and significantly increase medical costs.