Say goodbye to your boring morning commute. New technologies are changing the way people drive their cars. It’s making them safer, more fuel efficient, and could reshape the way America builds its roads and cities. The only thing that could stand in the way…

In a 2009 article, the Huffington Post went into considerable detail about the number of people with PhD degrees in economics employed by the …

Greetings from Maine! Right now, I’m writing from within foghorn distance of the sea. And this gives me an opportunity to tell you a …

The U.S. dollar is the dominant global reserve currency. All markets, including stocks, bonds, commodities, and foreign exchange are affected by the value of …

When the NSA surveillance news broke last year it sent shockwaves through CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Switzerland. Andy Yen, a PhD student, …

The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally …

Let’s head back in time… In 2004, a mere decade ago, the US national debt rang the register at $7.4 trillion. That represents “debt …

John Foust, a Democrat running for the 10th congressional seat in Northern Virginia, is — like Gov. Terry McAuliffe and other state Democrats — …

The midterm election season is upon us, and it’s a tossup whether the Republicans will win the Senate, or if President Obama, seemingly oblivious …

Alexander Hamilton was America’s first Secretary of Treasury under President George Washington. When he first entered office in 1789, America was an agricultural nation …

Remember that correction we’ve been quietly talking about over the past couple of months? Well, it might be right around the corner. Stocks waited …

I was talking with one of my colleagues the other day, and he raised a very interesting question, one that deserves consideration by anyone …

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 …