In the Huffington Post last week, Glenn Greenwald, Slate contributor Ryan Gallagher, and Ryan Grim had an investigative piece reporting that the NSA had …

The market has selected different things as money throughout history. Some of these items have served as money in isolated places for specific periods …

A president stands disgraced. Congress is scattering. Bureaucrats are baffled. Pundits are reaching. Industry is scared. Politicians are scrambling to do something, anything, to …

[Ed. Note: This article originally published on Jan. 24, 2013] Stocks up. Gold down. Bitcoin… waaay up. The S&P 500 busted through the 1,500 …

Given the enormous role that the welfare-warfare state plays in American life, it is always easy for libertarians to find deprivations of liberty, such …

Our grandparents believed in the value of thrift, but many of their grandchildren don’t. That’s because cultural and economic values have changed dramatically over …

Before the housing market collapsed and the government pumped billions into the economy to save it, there was a programmer named Satoshi Nakamoto. And …

So Janet Yellen’s first hearing took place a few nights ago. It was fairly boring. She’s expected to sail through and become the next …

Any married couple that earns more than 400% of the federal poverty level — that is $62,040 — or a family of two earns too much for subsidies under Obamacare. But if that same couple lived together unmarried, they could earn up to $45,960 each — $91,920 total — and still be eligible for subsidies through the exchanges in New York state.

The president assures us he is not responsible for the wave of health insurance policy cancellations. The insurance companies are. OK, so where is the other side?

The saying goes that things have to get worse before they get better. But with Obamacare, things just keep getting worse — and then …

The words of H.L. Mencken rang through my head as I listened to a certain Alabama congressman talk to 40 or 50 shivering supporters …

Now, this is sheer entertainment. The Chicago branch of the Federal Reserve has addressed the great monetary question of our day. A researcher has …

Though the rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges has dismayed even the law’s supporters, the problem the ACA is designed to address …

From the Tongue-in-Cheek Department of Spy Briefing Books Houston, TX — Police in Houston, Texas, recently charged a 10-year-old girl with aggravated sexual assault. …

The standard version of how money came to be goes like this: First, there was barter. (A handful of nails for a pint of …

Americans are still trying to get a handle on the full extent of the government’s domestic spying activities, including the recent revelation that the …

It is such a kick to read the transcripts from the White House’s health care “war room” in the first days of release. What …

A few months ago at a demonstration against the president of Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, a Canadian citizen made the following claim: “We …

Can we at least agree that the American people deserve the truth? That governing ourselves requires getting accurate information from the people we elect? …

Stock investors are still acting as though Janet Yellen will be good for the economy… or at least good for stock prices. Gold investors …

From the Tongue-In-Cheek Department of Spy Briefing Books… Washington, D.C. — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, announced that her …

Imagine that everyone in your community is issued a credit card with the same account number. At the end of every month, the bill …

Obamacare certainly has made history. It has set the record for the fastest-failing Big Government program in world history. This isn’t only about a …