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For the first five months of the 2025 fiscal year, federal spending is coming in at the highest level ever. This is true even...
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For the first five months of the 2025 fiscal year, federal spending is coming in at the highest level ever. This is true even...
What happens to businesses when liabilities exceed assets? They go bankrupt, with the spectacular failure of FTX being front-and-center. However, the Federal Reserve is...
With people calling for an audit of the US gold stores at Fort Knox, perhaps we should remember how that gold got there in...
[This essay was originally published as “Die Legende von Versagen des Kapitalismus” in Der Internationale Kapitalismus und die Krise, Festschrift für Julius Wolf (1932)1...
One of the cliches of the New Deal was that businesses were entitled to a “fair” profit. Leonard Read astutely pointed out that profits (and losses)...
The Wall Street Journal reported last month that the ballot initiative to decriminalize all drugs in the state of Oregon is failing, and that...
The Biden administration claims it wants to get out in front of the development of artificial intelligence. However, the likely scenario is that AI...
Ivory Tower economists continue to tell us that the US economy is booming, but consumers disagree. Paul Krugman has a new explanation for the...