The Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives is dedicated to revealing the shortcomings of today’s centralized, bureaucratic, and discretionary monetary and financial-regulatory systems and to identifying, studying, and promoting alternatives more conducive to a stable, flourishing, and free society. The Center brings together unparalleled expertise with an Executive Advisory Council made up of […]
How Can the Fed Lose So Much Money?
In The New York Sun, Alex J. Pollock asks how the Fed can lose so much money, and he wonders when a leader will call the central bank out. Of course, a true leader for the American people has already called out the Federal Reserve, but not enough people were listening. Former congressman and presidential […]
Oil Could Hit $100 a Barrel
Lucia Kassai, Sharon Cho, Devika Krishna Kumar, and Alex Longley of Bloomberg tell their readers how global supply shocks are intensifying fears of a commodity-driven inflation resurgence. They write: When oil jumped above $90 a barrel just days ago, military tensions between Israel and Iran were the immediate trigger. But the rally’s foundations went deeper — to global supply shocks that are intensifying […]
Should Jerome Powell Fear RFK Jr. in the White House?
In David Stockman’s Contra Corner, David Stockman explains that RFK Jr. should fire Jerome Powell on the first day of his presidency if elected. Stockman writes: RFK has pointedly announced that he will pardon Deep State prisoner Julian Assange on day #1. That sent a powerful message that the destructive rule of Washington’s bipartisan War […]
The Return of Local Banking
For years, America’s banking sector has been consolidating and closing local branches. Perhaps that phase of banking is over, as consumer are pushing bank on branch closures by bringing their money to smaller local banks. Imani Moise reports in The Wall Street Journal: Jana Dalton used the same bank for 40 years, depositing checks and […]
America Is the World’s Biggest Oil Producer
At Bloomberg, Kevin Crowley explains the dichotomy of the oil and tech industries in America, and he reminds readers that America has become the world’s biggest oil producer. He writes: Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. are generating returns not seen since their heyday over a decade ago, with $58.7 billion handed to shareholders last […]
Fed Still Wary on Inflation
The Federal Reserve, led by FOMC Chairman Jerome Powell, is still wary about a flare-up of inflation. The Wall Street Journal’s Nick Timiraos reports: The Federal Reserve signaled it was thinking about when to lower interest rates but hinted a cut wasn’t imminent when it held rates steady at its first policy meeting of the year on […]
Good as Gold: America Needs Antiinflationists
In a thorough analysis of America’s current macroeconomic state, Joseph T. Salerno exposes inflationism as an ideology, and calls for a renewal of the antiinflationist philosophy of Ludwig von Mises. As evidence for the successful implementation of antiinflationary policy in America, Salerno points to the efforts of President Dwight Eisenhower, writing: In the United States […]
The Sad Fate of U.S. Steel
As you read yesterday, one of America’s storied companies, U.S. Steel, is being sold to a Japanese competitor. In The Spectator, John Steele Gordon explains the history of U.S. Steel, writing: The Carnegie Steel Company founded by Andrew Carnegie was soon the largest, most efficient and most profitable steel company in the world. Its profit […]
DOW in Today’s Illusion Is a Worthless Measure of Economics
Helena Glass of LewRockwell.com tells her readers that a higher DOW in today’s illusion is a worthless measure of Economics. She writes: The media entertainers have determined that the DOW rising to new levels of high is an indicator that Bidenomics is working. Well, it is, just not in the way they perceive. Economics and […]
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