Power & Market

The surge in unemployment isn’t over. New jobless claims data released today

The Swiss National Bank owns approximately $94 billion of publicly traded US equities such as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google? Its top holding is in Apple, with over $4 billion worth of shares in the company.

Could the COVID-19 panic lead to a generational shift in culture comparable to those resulting from the Great Depression or the advent of the perso

Four weeks ago I participated in a debate moderated by Bernardo Ferrero with Walter Block on the coronavirus quarantine.

It strikes me as not a coincidence that governments choose experts whose advice usually leads to increasing the power of the state and the prestige of the politicians who run those states.

Should minors be able to vote? They don’t pay income taxes; many don’t work, and most are dependent on others. But that describes many adult voters as well.

As predicted by many, April's employment numbers were the worst ever recorded since the US government began making these estimates in 1939.

On the list of things that the government should not do, there must be a spot for the $750 billion corporate bond buying that is slated to begin th

In recent weeks, we’ve been keeping an ey

David Flattum by email points out that in the movie The Big Short, it is said that each 1 percent rise in the unemployment rate is as