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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...
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While China has made great strides economically since the days of Mao, nonetheless, there remain a number of weaknesses in the economy. While we...
Was Paul Heyne an ethicist who thought like an economist or was he instead an economist who thought like an ethicist? It was a...
Why is gold at a record high? How does modern mercantilism fuel today’s tensions? Are we all just pawns in a much bigger game?
At first glance, it might seem extreme—even offensive—to compare anti-fossil fuel climate policies to Stalin’s deliberate starvation of millions during the Holodomor. But in...
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...
With people calling for an audit of the US gold stores at Fort Knox, perhaps we should remember how that gold got there in...
For the first five months of the 2025 fiscal year, federal spending is coming in at the highest level ever. This is true even...
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...
The Trump administration continues its assault on the First Amendment and the rights of dissenters. The latest casualty is a Turkish graduate student at...
Economists like to claim that expectations of more inflation lead to, well, more inflation. Such beliefs ignore the fact that inflation is an increase...
Is Britain poorer than Mississippi? Taking into account welfare benefits and taxes, the answer appears to be yes, and it’s yes for many other...
Patrick Newman joins Bob to discuss Simon Kuznets’ role in developing GNP and GDP metrics and Kuznets’ concerns over how government spending is accounted...