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Trump ways he wants to spend half a trillion more dollars on military spending, even as federal spending persists at Biden-Era levels and interest on the debt climbs ever upward.

Thanks for government intervention, the US healthcare system has been breaking down. Unfortunately, with each healthcare setback, the prescription is for more intervention, which triggers even more crises.

The 2025 G20 Global Inequality Report was a timely attempt to address inequality. However, one must be critically aware that government intervention could render matters worse.

Central bankers are not afraid Trump will “politicize” the Fed and turn it into a crony arm of the government that warps the economy to benefit those close to power. They’re afraid his blind inflationism and lack of subtlety will make it impossible to hide the fact that it already is.

The current Washington tiff between Donald Trump and Jerome Powell is being reframed as Powell heroically defending the Fed’s “independence.” In truth, the Fed has always done the administration’s dirty work and pursued inflation when it might temporarily boost the economy.

"America, above all countries, was born in an explicitly libertarian revolution, a revolution against empire; against taxation, trade monopoly, and regulation; and against militarism and executive power."

Net Present Value (NPV) is a popular decision-making criteria used by firms to make key, crucial choices about how to allocate resources across an economy, but this can be misleading especially when interest rates are manipulated via inflation.

When it comes to supporting the Trump administration, there is room for some honest self-reflection: What did I know and when did I know it?

This feud is little more than two factions within the Federal government fighting over how exactly to use the Fed's many powers to inflate, exploit, and help fund an ever expanding federal government.

When Hugo Chavez nationalized Venezuela’s oil industry and created a huge welfare state funded by declining oil revenues, he unleashed huge social problems that have reduced the nation to poverty. The Trump administration’s recent actions against Venezuela will make things much worse.

The Fight over Economics Is a Fight over CultureThe Left long ago figured out how to get ordinary people interested in economic policy. The strategy is two

What would be the economic consequences if one individual had a money printer? Now trace that out to a central bank and government.