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President Trump’s conflicts with Chairman Powell and with Governor Cook have obscured real shortcomings at the Federal Reserve and brought little useful change. These...
At a recent Senate hearing on the fiscal outlook, legislators and budget experts said the quiet part out loud: the United States is running...
Compare this argument from President Trump on Truth Social, in January 2026, to another (perhaps the same?) made by Pierre Joseph Proudhon in 1849....
In January 2026 the AIER Everyday Price Index (EPI) rose 0.33 percent to 298.0, starting the year with its largest increase since June 2025....
Sports betting has become an epidemic, especially among young men. The Guardian recently aggregated some alarming statistics about its prevalence. The story notes: Somewhere...
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” The line from Forrest Gump is meant to capture uncertainty...
The new year brought new developments in the world of financial services: specifically, the role of artificial intelligence (AI). In January, JPMorgan Chase announced...
In 1988, when Robert Lawson was a first-year economics graduate student at Florida State University, he was surprised one day to look up and...
Social Security is drifting toward a cliff, and Congress keeps pretending the shortfall will fix itself. It won’t. Absent reform, benefits will be cut...
The nomination of Kevin Warsh to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chair has many people wondering: What makes a good Fed chair? The...
A year or so ago, I met my friend’s mother for the first time at a wedding. She told me that she was Mississippi...
For most of us, especially those of us who think about it a lot, the Roman Empire conjures up famous names of such men...
One of the most robust findings in economics is that, with few exceptions, people respond to incentives, rather than intentions or moral principles. Individuals...