EconomyCommentary
Savings Plunge as Americans Tap Out
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Americans are running out of money. According to… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Bankruptcies Soaring Amid Worrisome Inflationary Economic Pressures
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Small-business bankruptcies are up 61% on the year…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
5 Things You Need to Know About the Fed’s Rate Cut
The Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates marks a new chapter in the D.C. Cartel’s long march toward the bankruptcy of our nation. Although… Read More
Economy Analysis
Are We Already In a Recession?
The U.S. is racing toward a national debt of $36 trillion and will likely surpass this benchmark before the end of the year, according to… Read More
EconomyCommentary
From Inflation to Recession
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Regime journalists across America wet themselves last week… Read More
EconomyCommentary
How Gold Saves the Dollar
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Can we save the dollar before central banking… Read More
Economy News
Recession Fears Loom as Small Business Job Numbers Tank
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Another domino falls for recession as job creation… Read More
Economy Analysis
NY Fed Reports Perilously High Household Indebtedness
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Household debt in America just hit a new… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Most Americans Think Recession Has Already Begun. They’re Right.
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Two new surveys say most Americans think the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Data Screams Recession
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. “Recession triggered,” reads the headline from ZeroHedge as… Read More
LawCommentary
You Can Challenge Old Regulations Before the Government Sues You, Justices Rule
Certain that bureaucrats know best, the modern administrative state has long labored to snuff out challenges to its actions. So, when Corner Post—a convenience store… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Why We’re Adding Far Fewer Jobs Than the White House Claims
Most Americans are so dissatisfied with the economy that they think the nation is already in recession. Yet the Biden administration often cites robust job growth as proof that the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Biden’s Housing Headache
President Joe Biden promised to lower housing costs during his State of the Union address earlier this spring. To date, his plan has been an… Read More
EconomyCommentary
How the Fed Helped Create a Permanent American Underclass
In 1913, Woodrow Wilson and his progressives promised that the Federal Reserve would avert both depressions and inflation, while preventing the wealthy from controlling America’s financial markets… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Senate Republicans at Odds With Democrats on Banning This Digital Currency
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
Blame Washington, Not Grocery Stores, for Food Price Hikes
If you’re struggling to pay for groceries, you’re not alone. Staples such as bread, lunch meats, dairy products, and eggs have seen price increases of… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Understated by Feds, Through-the-Roof Housing Inflation Is Crushing Would-Be Homeowners
Business headlines say that inflation is down, yet countless Americans are struggling, particularly with finding somewhere affordable to live. How do we reconcile these seemingly… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Time to End the Fed and Its Mismanagement of Our Economy
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
Economy Analysis
Is My Money Safe? Financial Expert Explains Recent Bank Failures, Questions Activity of JPMorgan Chase
Americans needn’t worry about the safety of their money at the bank, financial and investment expert David Bahnsen says. Three large American banks have collapsed… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Democrats Deserve Plenty of Blame for Bank Crisis
The United States recently suffered the second-largest bank failure in the country’s history. The consensus view is that Silicon Valley Bank made a huge mistake… Read More
EconomyCommentary
From Liquidity to Insolvency, Big Government Shows How to Crash Economy
We are in a looming financial crisis, even if we don’t want to see it. Silicon Valley Bank was, according to Moody’s, worthy of an… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Did Silicon Valley Bank Prioritize Social Justice Over Risk Management?
After one of the biggest banks in the technology startup lending space collapsed last week, President Joe Biden tried to reassure Americans that their banking… Read More
Obamacare Is Already Reducing Employment
Employers are responding to the uncertainty of the Obamacare rollout by slashing hours and limiting their new hires. Although the Obamacare employer mandate will not… Read More
Amid Woes, Emerging Markets Need More Economic Freedom
Global markets are huffing and puffing and trying to blow the BRICs down. Some of the BRICs—Brazil, India, and China in particular, along with other… Read More
The Fed at 100: Why Do We Have a Central Bank?
The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, is surrounded by as much controversy today as it was at its creation 100 years ago. The Fed… Read More
The Fed Inflation-Unemployment Trade-Off: Outlasting the Energizer Bunny
George Selgin has a new post on the Free Banking Blog that highlights the economic quandary the Fed now has the U.S. in. The post… Read More
Economy Still Growing Too Slowly
The Bureau of Economic Analysis’s (BEA) first estimate of economic growth for the third quarter of this year shows an economy that continues to grow… Read More
The Fed’s Monetary Policy Matters, Too
It’s easy to get distracted with news like the guessing game of who will replace Ben Bernanke. But the more important issue is: What is… Read More
Next Fed Chairman: Independence Is Paramount
Larry Summers withdrew his name from consideration for the next chairmanship of the Federal Reserve. The office currently occupied by Ben Bernanke wields enormous power… Read More
Emerging Markets Have Caught a “Fed Cold”
Stock prices and exchange rates in emerging markets such as India and Indonesia are taking a beating this week. The immediate cause is that the… Read More
