Even Milton Friedman—who never supported gold as money—admitted that a monetary system based on gold would “take care of ...

Stephanie Kelton, one of the thought leaders behind Modern Monetary Theory, was recently the subject of a New York Times profile originally titled "Time for a Victory Lap*" In recent years, ...

“For every complex problem,” wrote H.L. Mencken, “there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” The issues of “health care, infrastructure, education,” and “climate change” could all be solved ...

Good evening and welcome to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. It’s a special pleasure to have you with us. As Chairman Bernanke has noted, economics education is “a critical component of the ...

About the authors: Edward Yardeni is president and chief investment strategist and Eric Wallerstein is chief markets strategist at Yardeni Research. Tightening monetary policy did not cause a ...

Explore Ludwig von Mises' influential Austrian economics, key theories against socialism, and contributions to free-market capitalism.

The value of a dollar has sunk to a new low, less than 1/3,000th of an ounce of gold. Yet according to a woefully outmoded American law, the federal government must account for its more than 8,100 ...

Some ideas seem too good to be true. Like this one. It comes from a 13-year-old listener named Amy. She says she knows the government has trouble finding enough money to pay for stuff like schools and ...

So it looks like President Obama is going to start filling the vacancies left on the Federal Reserve Board. There are three vacancies including the vice chairmanship. Reuters lists several possible ...

Donald Trump unveiled a tax plan with big tax cuts for the middle class and is expected to have millions of additional Americans pay no federal income taxes. The tax plan will place spendable cash ...