The Return of the Anguish of Central Banking: Why the Fed and Inflation Go Hand in Hand
The buzz in Washington is that the Fed is "fighting inflation." But this is like an arsonist fighting the fire he started.
The buzz in Washington is that the Fed is "fighting inflation." But this is like an arsonist fighting the fire he started.
Inflation is raging and progressives want action. What kind of action? They want to return to the 1970s regime of price controls.
The United States economy may have delivered no growth in the first half of 2022 after the decline in the first quarter, narrowly avoiding a technical recession.
Unlike a private-sector service, police do not operate under any contractual obligations to provide services in any particular way. They can choose to do nothing at all, and face no real consequences.
One of Google's latest projects has been the development of LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), an artificially intelligent chatbot generator. Alas, Google has created another "woke" monster.
The Mauritius government still denies Chagossians independence, continuing colonial policies.
Peter Schiff once joked that Obama should have appointed Bernie Madoff secretary of the Treasury. The government's easy money policies ultimately lead to Ponzi schemes.
Were these cannabis-legal states to combine to form their own country, it would be the tenth-largest country in the world.
After more than a decade of monetary stimulus fueling elevated asset valuations and incentivizing an enormous leveraged bet on risk, a soft landing is impossible.
Conventional wisdom says a country should manage its debts, but what if debt has become uncontrollable?