The Federal Mega-Debt is Here to Stay
(Mises)—US fiscal realities are well known. Total federal debt outstanding has now reached $34 trillion, up from $98 billion in 1981, ...
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The Fed Claims the Banking System is “Sound and Resilient” — The Banks’ Balance Sheets Say Otherwise
(Mises)—The wordsmiths at the Federal Reserve wisely omitted the line about a “sound and resilient” banking system in its statement ...
What is Money? Who Controls Money?
(Mises)—J. P. Morgan famously said this in his testimony before Congress in 1912: “Gold is money. Everything else is credit.” J. ...
Don’t Let Your Adversaries Raise Your Children
(Mises)—Socialist Antonio Gramsci’s “long march through the institutions” describes the slow and gradual intellectual capture of a society through its ...
The Fed Prepares for a Bank Crisis While Telling Americans the Economy Is Strong
(Mises)—Last Thursday, Bloomberg reported that federal regulators are preparing a proposal to force US banks to utilize the Federal Reserve’s discount ...
Conservatives Shouldn’t Assume the Supreme Court Will Save Trump
(Mises)—This week’s decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to ban — for now — Donald Trump from the state’s presidential ...
After the Debt Ceiling Deal: Look for Liquidity Problems in the Markets
Everything seems to be lining up perfectly for individual investors with Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy making a debt ceiling ...
End the FBI
Special counsel John Durham on Monday released his report on the FBI's role in investigating the 2016 Donald Trump campaign's alleged collusion ...
Mark Thornton: It’s a Very Rational Decision to Invest Against the Political Disorder
A very short podcast I heard recently from Mises really caught my attention. The analysis by Mark Thornton was excellent, ...
