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The latest from the world of social media is the role of "influencers." There is a perfectly good economic explanation for their popularity.

Central banks usually don't admit their guilt in the destruction of money, but the Bank of England unwittingly comes clean.

Never before have we seen an entire generation of young Americans being censored—and self-censoring—for making innocuous statements. This does not end well.

It's popular for politicians to claim they will never cut Social Security. But doing nothing now about the program means imposing an even larger hit on seniors in the future. 

San Francisco, as well as the government of California, is calling for millions in "reparations" for black people in that state. Reparations, unfortunately, are fast becoming another anti-property-owner racket.

Ever since the Luddites rampaged through British textile factories in the early 1800s, people have feared that technology will result in mass unemployment. They were wrong then and are wrong now.

Opinion laundering is a method reporters use to smuggle their own views into "hard news" stories. Here's an example from the New York Times.

Larry Summers affirms the Rothbardian critique of fractional-reserve banking on Twitter...

With negative growth now dipping below –5 percent, money-supply contraction is approaching the biggest declines we've seen in the past thirty-five years.

All of Al Gore's children went to Harvard. Are we really to believe that this is because the Gore kids had the most "merit"? The only real  meritocracy is in the marketplace.