The Fed is holding interest rates steady. This won’t last much longer.
By Ryan McMaken The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced today that it will maintain the current target policy interest rate (the…
By Ryan McMaken The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced today that it will maintain the current target policy interest rate (the…
By Daniel Lacalle Why is the price of gold rising if the global economy is not in recession and inflation is allegedly under control?…
By Kimberlee Josephson Whenever financial assistance or opportunities for achieving favorable gains are present, rent-seeking often follows. Rent-seeking, as conveyed by Robert Tollison refers…
By Brendan Brown The severe losses for the center-right parties in the mid-summer French and British general elections, (i.e., Macron’s center-right coalition partners and…
By Daniel Lacalle Deficit spending is not a growth tool. It is the recipe for stagnation. The latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) budget and economic outlook…
The surge of cryptocurrencies has garnished an array of opinions on the matter. While some people hold a positive outlook, others see cryptocurrency as…
By Mark Thornton With the world moving more and more in the direction of trade protectionism and war, it is worth remembering the origin…
By Connor O’Keeffe Earlier this month, The Atlantic ran an article by Rogé Karma arguing that after nearly half a century of commitment to unmitigated free trade, politicians and…
Some critics of the Federal Reserve argue that central bankers manipulate the market whenever they adjust interest rates. For example, in an article in…
By Brendan Brown The salvo from Washington as it unleashes the Green War with China leaves no doubt about the perilous state of Sino-US…