A great technology solves a problem that we didn’t know we had. It makes us aware of deprivations we didn’t know existed until we …
Fifty years after the 1929 crash, a group of money managers and investment thinkers put together a collection of essays looking back at that …
Although the mainstream media have turned its attention away from the wreckage of Obamacare, don’t think for a second that all is well. As …
Turn on the tube and economic ignorance seems to be everywhere. There is constant shilling for more government. Business is demonized. Man is said …
Health care costs in the U.S. have been rising so steadily for so long that containment barely seems possible. Even optimists don’t dream of …
In early July 1944, delegates from 44 countries gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. A three-week summit took place, …
In the minds of many people around the world, including in the United States, the term “capitalism” carries the idea of unfairness, exploitation, undeserved …
When you type a website address into a browser, you might have noticed that the letters “http” appear at the front. “HTTP” stands for …
Some people are saying it is just what the doctor ordered. Others are saying that the cure is worse than the disease. The Affordable …
In 2012, money mandarins running the European Union chose stagnation over restructuring. Here’s a consequence of that choice: expectations for a self-sustaining economic recovery …
Picture the scene. It’s 2020. You’re at the checkout in a convenience store with a carton of milk. But you’ve got no cash and …
“In the beginning, all the world was America.” — John Locke “The Garden of Eden was a perfect place,” my friend Manuel explained. “Man …
One issue I have with our modern lifestyle — of many — is the emphasis on perfection. Newer, slimmer, bigger, better, faster: the message of …
People jacked up about income inequality can find a new hobby. The 1% are victims of a doomsday machine, and the countdown is ticking. …
After a week of reckoning about the American oil and gas boom… I’ve got to get something off my chest. I can’t stand it …
It might sound like the latest new product from Apple, but IPAB is actually the newest major legal challenge to Obamacare. Recently, a three-judge …
Americans have come to believe that the IRS and the income tax are inevitable parts of our lives. After all, most everyone alive today …
Here’s a fun fact: Although we all hate the U.S. dollar, as it continues to hemorrhage wealth, its foothold as the world’s reserve currency …
Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously used the term “forgotten man” in a 1932 speech to describe those at the bottom of the economic pyramid who, …
“As the nation’s central bank, the Federal Reserve derives its authority from the Congress of the United States. It is considered an independent central …
The Keynesian disaster recovery plan has been to lower rates, force people to take more risk in search of yield, and entice others to …
I want to share some insight and give you a front-row seat to America’s next big shale play. Let’s get to it… Over the …
In September 2009, when President Obama made a primetime speech pitching his not-yet-passed health care overhaul, he made the following promise: “I will not …
Whatever your views on the role of government, one thing is clear: There will be no way to pay for it if the economy …
