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President Trump’s erratic actions have created uncertainty in the gold markets, and just about everywhere else, and there is no end in sight.
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If prices are instrumental in providing needed information to market participants, then inflation can be seen as introducing static into the system, creating more...
The word “democracy” is almost sacrosanct in modern society, yet what advocates call “our democracy” is not what it claims to be. Real democracy...
War in the Persian Gulf doesn’t just mean pricier gas. It can snap hidden supply chains that keep modern life running, from fertilizer and...
It is important to note that states and what we know as taxes gradually emerged through war, conquest, plunder, and tribute. While the organization...
President Trump’s erratic actions have created uncertainty in the gold markets, and just about everywhere else, and there is no end in sight.
Economics has its own four-letter words. Although they are not obscene, socialists and statists would find them so.
Whenever there is an economic problem, politicians in knee-jerk response blame private monopolies. The problem isn’t monopolies; the problem is government.
Economics has its own four-letter words. Although they are not obscene, socialists and statists would find them so.
The market has one essential property: it remains connected to reality.
The notion that AI can take over an economy is fantasy. A market economy is not made up of competing algorithms but rather sets...
The boom-bust cycle is not a mystery. Understanding why requires grappling honestly with what the last fifty years produced.
What looks like market strength may be a delayed reckoning. Mark Thornton explains the signals, the Fed’s playbook, and where the next bust is...
Those who invoke Jesus for socialism face a tension: if the power to end suffering creates a moral obligation, then the Jesus who healed...
Those who invoke Jesus for socialism face a tension: if the power to end suffering creates a moral obligation, then the Jesus who healed...