Today, like most days, I fired up my computer. I read freely available information on the latest developments in technology that would, in the …

Remember when President Obama promised back in 2009 that his health care reform plan would cut insurance premiums for the average family by $2,500? …

Many people do not seem to mind the government peeping into their “metadata” or even into their emails, Internet habits, or phone calls. Mark …

A cornered rat has a deadly bite, or so says the lore from the 19th century, when rat baiting was common sport. The same …

Just when you think government couldn’t be more outrageous, you read a story like the one in The New York Times last weekend about …

Today, we take time out from our regularly scheduled programming to thank the people who rule us. To the TSA agents at airports… to …

Detroit’s fate is best summed up by the phrase “Demographics is destiny.” Take a look at the following chart on Detroit’s population growth since …

Actors. Actresses. NFL football players. Baseball players. Librarians. Mayors. City councilmen. Members of AARP. The Obama administration is looking far and wide, leaving no …

On a Sunday afternoon swim, a 6-year-old boy was bugging me in a sweet sort of way. He rode up and down the handrail …

The Federal Reserve has grown the monetary base from $827 billion to $3.1 trillion in five years. At the same time banks have stuck …

Jim Rickards lit up the Agora Financial Investment Symposium in Vancouver telling the crowd the price of gold will soar north of $7,000 per …

A frightening story this week in The New Yorker tells of a Texas couple that headed toward the Texas-Louisiana border to buy a used …

From antiquity to the Middle Ages, public health meant two things: sanitation (mainly clean water supply and sewage disposal) and protection against epidemics. On …

New York seems to have more than its fair share of knuckleheads. Paul Krugman and Tom Friedman are both stalwart columnists in The New …

Government can control many things, but it can’t control our minds and, therefore, our economic decisions. This has been a major source of frustration …

In 1985, Irwin Schiff wrote in what has become a classic book, How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn’t, a pictorial introduction to basic economics. Now his sons are taking up where he left off.

Edward Snowden is in big trouble for revealing that our government is doing to its own citizens what the U.S. once accused Russia of doing to its citizens. In what is really a bizarre turn of events, Russia has become a safe haven for an American whistle-blower.

A recent study on Canadian health care has been released late last year. In it, the authors examine the deleterious effects of socialized medicine on patient wait times and the delivery of care.

Japan’s “universal” health care system, like all such systems the world over, is in trouble, with costs rising and the population aging. Nearly 25% …

I’ve just completed a heavy schedule of talks at the Agora Financial Investment Symposium in Vancouver. All my talks centered on information economics, Web …

In recent months, the price of gold has tumbled. Along the way, lower gold prices have undermined the share price of many mining plays. …

The stock market hovers around all-time highs, and right on cue, individual investors are starting to get back into stocks. They are tired of …

“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will …

Every time you buy a drug at a pharmacy — be it by prescription or over the counter — there’s a middleman that makes …