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By SchiffGold On Friday, Pres. Trump declared a national emergency. Based on that declaration, the president will reallocate $6.5 billion from other government programs to fund a border wall. In his podcast on Friday, Peter Schiff said there is indeed a national emergency, but it has not...

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Editor's note : This article was originally published on February 16, 2019, by Menzie Chinn here . "The Coalition for a Prosperous America" releases what it burbles as a "Groundbreaking CPA Study…" entitled "Quantifying Economic Growth and Job Creation from a Competitive Dollar" ...

Believe it or not, officials at the Federal Reserve are discussing how the Federal Reserve should operate its monetary policy in “normal” times. As explained by Nick Timiraos in the New York Times , “Federal Reserve officials are zeroing in on a strategy to end the wind...

The financial markets began last and this year with a bang. However, there are significant differences, both positive and negative, that lead us to believe that this year will end differently than last year. A year ago, investor optimism was at an all-time high with expectations that the glo...

By Ryan McMaken Money-supply growth slowed in January, falling to the second-lowest rate recorded since February of last year. Overall, money-supply growth remains well below the growth rates experienced from 2009 to 2016, and has fluctuated little since March of last year In January, ye...

If you are a regular reader of mine, you know that I am a strident critic of monetary policy in our country and that I have been immensely skeptical of our Federal Reserve for (in my opinion) being beholden to daily moves in the stock market to help it set what is supposed to be longer-term mo...

In this article, I draw attention to the similarities between the current economic situation and that of 1929, and the threat to today's unbacked currencies. There is the coincidence of trade protectionism with the top of the credit cycle, and there are the inflationary events that preceded it...

The S&P 500 has rallied almost 17% in the past seven weeks, but it is still down about 6% from its all-time high of almost 5 months ago. Corporate profits continue to rise - trailing 12-month earnings are up almost 22% in the past year - yet P/E ratios (how much the market is willing to pa...