Democrats Are Trying To Push Through Another 'Build Back Better' Bill. It Would Only Make Inflation Worse.
Here's hoping we don't wind up with more of the spending and favoritism that's become so common.
Here's hoping we don't wind up with more of the spending and favoritism that's become so common.
The economy is spinning, but we’ve proven there are viable ways to slow it down to more bearable levels.
Interest rates and servicing costs could push us into worrisome territory sooner than we think.
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The self-described freedom maximalist explains why he isn't put off bitcoin by its decline since last November.
The Federal Reserve started the problem, and consumers are paying for the consequences.
It would force us to "live within our means," says the president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.
The president's argument is amazing for its tone-deafness, inconsistent thinking, and sheer economic ignorance.
Inflation damages the economy while doing the greatest harm to the most vulnerable.
Biden's three-point plan to tackle inflation is really a one-point plan: Let the Federal Reserve handle this mess.
The self-described "freedom maximalist" and former hedge fund manager talks "incorruptible money," Austrian economics, and why Satoshi Nakamoto's invention is unstoppable.
There is seldom any meaningful accountability for government incompetence.
No matter how you slice it, no one person or policy is solely to blame for surging inflation.
Four economists at the Federal Reserve say America's high rate of inflation relative to the rest of the world is the result of surging disposable income during the pandemic.
Some want to solve the problem with subsidies for gas, housing, child care, and more. That only risks greater stagnation.
The president's new budget plan calls on Congress to tax wealthy Americans' unrealized capital gains.
The former Texas congressman and presidential candidate says his goal was to get people to think about freedom.
The president's anticipated executive order stopped short of feared regulations but suggests federal unease with uncontrolled development.
We must face the reality that the debt does matter.
From the CDC to the FDA, there are too many missteps to list.
We were told it would be "transitory." But inflation continued to rise.
Regulatory agencies were never designed to be political, but the tables have turned.
"Greed is constant. If it's greed, how do we explain prices falling?"
A one percentage point increase in interest rates translates into a $30 trillion increase in interest costs on the national debt.
America needs to get its fiscal house in order.
The legislation will have a negative impact on the labor supply and send high prices soaring even higher.
But also be thankful that Americans have been spared the worst of soaring food costs.
The cost of interest on the national debt will soon be a huge chunk of change.
The pick lends ammunition to those who have warned of a slippery slope toward socialism.
As inflation increases, we need a low-debt environment.
Monetary policy can't work optimally until we free up the economy in other important ways.
The ShapeShift founder and early pioneer in the space talks about why bitcoin poses an existential threat to fiat money.
Prices are up all over the economy. Here are scenarios about what might happen next.
Chairman Jerome Powell says the Fed will look into the "benefits and risks" of a digital dollar.
A new study finds that as the government expands, the private sector shrinks.
The value of our money may be the latest victim of pandemic-era policy.
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The market's failure to produce an ideal outcome cannot alone justify activist policy, because governments can also fail to produce the ideal.
By lowering the “travel rule” threshold to $250, the government could access more of our financial data.
The danger of the virus can’t be considered to the exclusion of the need for jobs and prosperity.
The government is doing what it can to help out Big Money.
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Some economists believe that a negative interest rate policy will stimulate the economy by reducing the cost of loans. That isn’t how it has worked in practice.
The Reason Roundtable discusses Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's 60 Minutes admission, as well as the Libertarian Party presidential race post-Justin Amash
The 1961 speech by President Dwight Eisenhower foreshadowed the current government's response to COVID-19.
The disease will leave behind a residue of laws, spending, and precedents for future government actions.
Paired with a new round of quantitative easing, the Fed takes us back to the 2008 playbook.
Series of huge short-term loans to financial services presages a new era of "quantitative easing" and Fed balance sheet growth