U.S. Economy

Many fans of Austrian economics know the MP Materials and US Rare Earth REM financing agreements will end badly with crony capitalism sourced from nonsense.

Gold and silver make sense—until government “helps.”

A long-enduring myth about money is that we need a flexible or "elastic" currency for the economy to grow. Economist Jonathan Newman joins us to talk about why this has never been true. 

As tariffs force up business costs, analysts are claiming that businesses will have to “absorb costs” to stay in business. That is not a sustainable strategy, as businesses cannot survive under these high-cost circumstances.

Mark Thornton walks through Ludwig von Mises’s three stages of inflation, gold/crypto and de-dollarization signals, and what it takes to step off before the crash.

As the Federal Reserve signals it doesn't care about price inflation, we're reminded the Fed is mostly motivated to ensure rising asset prices for Wall Street while pushing cheap credit to finance federal deficits.

Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the causes and implications of the Fed’s decision to cut interest rates.

As politics come to dominate more of our lives and young generations grow righteously disillusioned with a system designed to rip them off, we’re likely to see more violence and chaos. It’s a bad path we’re on. But there is a better one.

Inflation is not going away anytime soon, and it is ravaging the American middle class. Unfortunately, no one in Washington is interested in doing what is necessary to reverse this scourge.

Black swans don’t cause crashes: they reveal them. Mark Thornton shows how easy money breeds “sequestered capital” in opaque assets, priming the next bust.