Debt, tariffs, and money printing: Mark Thornton explains how the policy machine rewires markets, and why metals and commodities react first.
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Jonathan Newman tackles the new “Federal Reserve Simulator” game in which players try to match wits against the Fed. As Newman found out,…
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This SCOTUS ruling is a refreshing rebuttal limiting executive branch power to implement President Trump’s troublesome tariffs by executive order through IEEPA.
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Governments at all levels abuse their “privilege” of eminent domain, the taking of private property for government use. Murray Rothbard understood that government…
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Ryan McMaken traces the rise and squeeze of America’s small business economy, showing how tariffs, industrial policy, the Fed, and “too big to…
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This week, Bob walks through Javier Milei’s 2026 address to the World Economic Forum, explaining the Austrian and neoclassical ideas behind Milei’s defense…
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Keynesians claimed that stagflation—rising price levels and increasing rates of unemployment—couldn’t happen. Then it happened time and again, something predicted and coherently explained…
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Gen. Caine couldn’t provide the same assurances for success as he did with Venezuela. President Trump later denied the reports about Caine’s warnings.
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When government equipment isn’t enough, the free market comes to the rescue.
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AI is not the killer—it is the coroner.