U.S. Economy

Is it all bad news? There is still entrepreneurship. There is still innovation.

With inflation making workers poorer, and with midterm elections looming, Janet Yellen is doing damage control by arguing over the definition of "recession."

Tho Bishop is joined by Mises Research Fellow Marcel Gautreau for a wide-ranging conversation about challenges to the American-dominated neoliberal order.

The ruling class is claiming that free markets are nothing more than a "trickle-down" scheme. But a free market system really does serve society best.

The Keynesians running our economic life may be reassured that the Fed cannot fail in a technical sense, but the public should be appalled.

The New York Times claims that the "administrative state"—that is, governance by unelected bureaucrats—protects our country and enhances democracy.

Paul Krugman denies that the Fed artificially suppressed interest rates. As usual, Krugman neither understands interest rates nor the effects of inflationary policies.

The Keynesians running our economic life may be reassured that the Fed cannot fail in a technical sense, but the public should be appalled.

Congress enjoys exorbitant political privilege in the form of cheap deficit spending—but it may soon come to an end.

When conservatives applaud unlimited war spending, they not only harm our economy and body politic, but they give the Left a powerful talking point.