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While politicians, media mavens, and the academic elite spread fear about artificial intelligence, AI is helping make life better for ordinary consumers.

April was yet another month of declining real wages, and was the twenty-fifth month in a row during which growth in average hourly earnings failed to keep up with price inflation.

Economically speaking, the US government is bankrupt even if the government won’t admit what is obvious. But how would an actual bankruptcy proceeding go?

Progressive governments in the name of equity are calling for taxation of capital gains. They really are demanding destruction of capital through capital consumption.

The formal recession has yet to be declared, and Powell is already offering apologies.

With negative growth now falling to near –10 percent, money-supply contraction is now the largest we've seen since the Great Depression. 

While most free market advocates are fixated on the national debt, they also should be looking at municipal debt over which taxpayers have no say. Maybe default is the answer.

The fight between Russia and NATO is not about "democracy versus authoritarianism." Rather both the US and Russian states are doubling down because they are doing what states do: seeking power.

Despite the soothing hot air from the White House and Fed officials, the financial system is becoming increasingly fragile and unstable. Maybe all of that intervention the past decade was not wise.

Modern culture is biased against those that are rich even while depending upon the wealth that successful entrepreneurs have created.