Colin Grabow As President Donald Trump threatens so-called “reciprocal tariffs” on US trading partners, some countries are offering lower duties to avoid the US leader’s wrath. Vietnam recently announced that…

Andrew Gillen As momentum for closing the US Department of Education gains steam, questions about the transition are starting to surface, with the biggest ones concerning student loans. While we…

While many people have declared the US Constitution to be “crystal clear” on issues of governance, the truth is that much of what the Constitution says is disputed. The first…

Walter Olson Number eight in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: I had a few things to say last week about President Donald Trump’s executive order…

Chris Edwards President Trump is moving to shut down the federal Department of Education. Congress will need to make any cuts permanent, but downsizing the federal education bureaucracy is a…

What happens to businesses when liabilities exceed assets? They go bankrupt, with the spectacular failure of FTX being front-and-center. However, the Federal Reserve is in the same position but unlike…

With people calling for an audit of the US gold stores at Fort Knox, perhaps we should remember how that gold got there in the first place. Franklin Roosevelt‘s theft…

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For the first five months of the 2025 fiscal year, federal spending is coming in at the highest level ever. This is true even when we adjust for CPI inflation.

Warren Buffett is well-known for his investment acumen, and he often makes public statements in favor of capitalism. But his loyalty to the fiat monetary system undermines everything else that…