EconomyCommentary
If you’re a fan of the U.S. dollar, you can keep it from turning into a surveillance tool of the federal government—at least according to… Read More
EconomyCommentary
America’s political establishment has less respect for the U.S. dollar than our foreign adversaries. That was made clear when Tucker Carlson recently interviewed the Russian strongman President… Read More
EconomyCommentary
U.S. Steel, the world’s first billion-dollar company, is being sold for scrap. And Washington made it happen. Originally an amalgamation of Carnegie Steel and countless… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Federal Communications Commission has adopted “woke” new rules to control internet services that will increase consumer costs, slow investment in new technologies, and raise… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Argentina’s troubled economy has led to the victory of President-elect Javier Milei, whom many have branded a radical. Given our own fiscal and monetary troubles, what… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
America’s financial mismanagement has gotten so bad that some say our country’s decline is now inevitable, drawing parallels to the Roman Empire’s collapse. That comparison… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Every major economic downturn of the last 110 years bears the mark of the Federal Reserve. In fact, as long as the Fed has been around, it has… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Is America really in a manufacturing renaissance? Far from it. U.S. manufacturing is hemorrhaging, and the numbers the Biden administration uses to claim otherwise are… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The White House released a framework recently on regulation of digital assets that included a call for the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department to continue… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The highly anticipated consumer price index numbers for July came out Wednesday, and while energy fluctuations drove the headline number down, ominous trends show President… Read More
EconomyCommentary
With inflation surging to 9.1% and averaging much higher in the rural heartland than in urban areas, now is not the time for the federal… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The June inflation numbers are a disaster, coming in at a 40-year high of 9.1%. After the Biden administration’s repeated victory laps crowing about “the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
By strangling the Chinese economy and crushing human rights, President Xi Jinping is rapidly turning China into a bad gamble for Western investors and multinational… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Sens. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., last week introduced the Responsible Financial Innovation Act, which seeks to remove some of the risk that… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The U.S. and key allies announced in March sanctions on a number of Russian banks using SWIFT, the inter-bank payment system relied on by nearly… Read More
EconomyCommentary
President Joe Biden has yet another inflation scapegoat: the war in Ukraine. On March 10, in response to new data showing year-on-year inflation hitting 7.9%,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order pushing federal agencies to come up with new restrictions on cryptocurrencies, while formally tasking them to… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Inflation makes governments rabid. They lash out for scapegoats to blame for policymakers’ failures. Having failed to convince the American people that greedy meatpackers and… Read More
EconomyCommentary
President Joe Biden on Nov. 15 signed his infrastructure bill, a trillion-plus-dollar handout to left-wing special interests masquerading as a solution to the supply chain… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Having made a mess of Afghanistan, the Biden administration now turns its trademark incompetence to something closer to home; namely, the supply chains that put… Read More
EconomyCommentary
President Joe Biden’s recent vaccine mandate risks handicapping supply chains, shuttering hospitals, driving inflation higher, and leading to yet more empty grocery shelves. Biden on… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, introduced a measure into the infrastructure bill last week intended to increase financial surveillance that could backfire and simply drive an… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
President Joe Biden on July 9 issued an executive order, purportedly to promote competition. The order, though, is yet another far-left directive to promote federal… Read More
EconomyCommentary
El Salvador passed a new law last month that makes bitcoin national legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar. This means Salvadorans can pay their taxes in bitcoin and use it for any debt or purchase. While this is the first time… Read More
Health CareCommentary
In an editorial last week, the Los Angeles Times declared it conventional wisdom that COVID-19 proves Bernie Sanders was right about “Medicare for All,” because… Read More
Health CareCommentary
All Americans, regardless of political party, want access to timely, high-quality health care. The question is how to get there. Do we harness the power… Read More
