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If you have an actual life and important things to do, you probably haven’t been paying attention to the latest debt-ceiling theater now goin

After years of inflationary intervention, the Federal Reserve has no more rabbits to pull out of the hat.

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Waco Massacre in which the media and the government self-congratulated each other in absolving the FBI of any crimes. Nothing has changed since then.

Contrary to the worldview of progressives, taxation and the coercion it brings are not part of a "social contract." Instead, they are implemented by force.

As the US government debases the dollar, other nations take notice and possibilities increase that another currency based on sound principles might emerge.

If the Fed is serious about bringing down price inflation, it's difficult to see how the Fed can do that while also guaranteeing more liquidity to an obviously fragile banking system.

We must fight to ensure that the Iraq War and its supporters are never rehabilitated by historians or pundits. Nor should the war, its lies, and its crimes ever be forgotten.

Look at the Fed as the perpetrator of our economic pain, not the guide out of it. 

Washington elites and especially their media have denounced what they once praised: leaking of official documents that show the government has been lying.

Walter Bagehot, as Jim Grant writes, believed that bankers and central bankers should exhibit financial discipline. He would not recognize today's banking world.