Oil Prices Show Weakening Demand, but Not Because of Electric Cars
Oil prices have weakened in recent weeks despite the war in Gaza and rising geopolitical risk. This points to overall economic contraction.
Oil prices have weakened in recent weeks despite the war in Gaza and rising geopolitical risk. This points to overall economic contraction.
The endless bubble economy has a new lending craze: loans backed by AI chips. The problem is that while the chips serve as collateral, companies right now cannot make enough revenue to cover their costs.
Economics researcher Joakim Book joins Bob to discuss his recent article on the dollar's international dominance.
In the aftermath of Donald Trump's conviction in Manhattan—a political show trial, to be sure—David Gordon reviews Danilo Zolo’s, Victor’s Justice, which examined the Nuremberg Trials following World War II.
In order to vastly expand the regulatory state, the Biden administration is using fake cost-benefit ratios to make its regulations seem less costly and more beneficial. This is clearly fraudulent, but no bureaucrat will be charged with any crimes.
Ryan and Tho are joined by Mises Institute Senior Editor Bill Anderson to discuss Donald Trump's conviction.
Federal judges seem never to have heard of the American Revolution, fought to overthrow these very ideas of "sovereignty," which these judges now proclaim.
While our political “leaders” insist that the government is “protecting” us, it offers the same kind of “protection” that mobsters offer: pay us to “protect” you, or we burn down your place with you in it.
Long before government mandates and pressure infected businesses and universities with the DEI virus, Ludwig von Mises explained how bureaucracies infect the decision-making process.
Ordinary people cannot stop the Fed and the government from inflating the currency, but they can take measures to shield themselves from some of its harmful effects. Mark Thornton presents a few ideas on how it can be done.