U.S. Economy

Mark takes another look at the Producer Price Index.

Biden’s newest proposal for steel tariffs join a long list of tariff policies that ignore the unseen damage that will be done to the U.S.

A recent underco

The inflation news from the Federal Reserve is once again disappointing. 

Despite the usual cheerleading from the Biden-supporting mainstream media and academic economists, the US economy is in trouble, and everything Biden is doing makes things worse. Harder times are coming.

This question has been at the center of a great many conversations I’ve been recently having with clients and friends.

A recent CNN broadcast claimed that deflation was bad for the economy and that we need to adjust to higher prices. As usual, the journalistic “experts” got it backward.

While modern academic and media culture portray black Africans as victims only of Europeans, the history of the African slave trade is much more complicated than historians and journalists want us to believe.

What happens when war shuts down the Strait of Hormuz? What about the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, and Baltimore harbor?

Nick Gillespie joins Bob to make the case that American Libertarians are too pessimistic.