U.S. Economy

There is just no relief from the constant drum beat for more and more government intervention in the economy.

Real income and wealth growth in the United States peaked in the 1990s, and has been declining since.

Economists generally do not like high transactions costs. But they can be good when imposed on governments.

Simple, unilateral free trade is better than a trade "deal" between governments. But, some trade deals are definitely worse than others.

When we look at the federal debt as a percentage of tax revenues, the US is behind only Japan when it comes to debt loads.

Delving further into the jobs report, we see that many of the jobs that were supposedly created were jobs in government.

Disappointed with weak growth worldwide, central banks look poised to crank out more easy money.

The media is telling us how excellent the latest jobs numbers are. Unfortunately, it's more of the same for what is the weakest recovery in decades.

Federal policies have done nothing to increase homeownership over the past fifty years. Perhaps it is time to leave housing markets alone.