U.S. Economy

While the Fed and the Biden administration try to assure Americans that their banks are safe and secure, the numbers tell a different story.

American politicians are beating war drums. They forget that bad relations are costly in many ways.

Mark discusses something bigger than the Disney layoffs: the Wall Street Journal's frontpage article on investing in gold.

As markets settle down after the last set of bank failures, political elites claim the crisis is behind us. But it is not over, not by a long shot.

Ryan McMaken and Dr. Mark Thornton cover the state of the dollar and why employers are laying off their highest paid workers.

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.

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

Even after two years of "transitory" inflation, America's ruling classes insist that prices are falling and that all of this is temporary. We don't believe them.

Ryan and Tho look at common American history myths baked into government school curricula. 

The current banking crises have deep roots in US financial history. Monetary authorities have engaged in inflationary behavior for more than a hundred years.