“An inflation always creates winners and losers, redistributing wealth.” – Robert L. Bartley, The Seven Fat Years By John... Read More

It is both stunning and comforting that Democrats and Republicans in the Senate and House quickly embraced socialism, however temporarily. Read More

Amazon has already devastated Main Streets and destroyed mom and pop businesses by the thousands, but that's no reason for it to stop. For... Read More

Both the origins and the death of our economic system has become an almost intractable riddle for theorists to solve.  Read More

THE NATIONAL DEBT MAY seem as far removed from your investments as your parents' debt is from your bank account. But like your... Read More

Pundits are uncharacteristically cheerful toward stock buybacks these days. Read More

On the anniversary of his death, a look at Bryant the basketball â?Â" and investing â?Â" legend Read More

Janet Yellen became the first woman to head the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday, a historic appointment that will position her to promptly... Read More

The first part of the title is true. The second part is tongue-in-cheek as very few people can get to the Arctic, never mind counting all the... Read More

 "Libertarians in a pandemic" is a good essay by Jacob Grier expanding on many themes I've written about here, whether markets though... Read More

As part of his flurry of executive orders, President Biden has eliminated almost the entirety of the Trump regulatory streamlining program.... Read More

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.’s announcement in early December that it would send 17 films from its 2021 slate directly to its HBO... Read More

The one common denominator of certain business owners? They cannot find anyone to take over their job when they retire. Read More

China wants to lead the global recovery from the pandemic and become more influential on the world stage than ever before. It might just have... Read More

What a glorious thing the reopening is! After nearly a year of darkening times, the light has begun to dawn, at least in the US.  Given... Read More

People started staying at home before the shutdowns were ordered, data shows. Read More

Everyday life barely resembles what it did a year ago. Many of us work differently, save differently and certainly spend... Read More

You've worked hard. You've built a retirement savings balance of $1 million. You're ready to retire. And you want $100,000 a year of... Read More

President Biden has begun repealing many of the administrative actions of his predecessor, in addition to implementing key planks of his own... Read More

QUALIFYING FOR A mortgage in 2021 may be a different process from years past. The coronavirus pandemic has prompted many lenders to... Read More

A swell of individual investors are betting that stocks will go up. That enthusiasm is having a growing influence over the regular stock... Read More

When everyone expects one category to lead, something different usually happens instead. Read More

After winning a national basketball championship at Michigan State, this billionaire turned his father's 12-person mortgage outfit into a... Read More

President Joe Biden can do a lot with executive orders, and much of what he does will unravel Trump's own legacy of using executive powers as... Read More

The Facebook Oversight Board should maintain the ban on the former president. Then Congress should regulate the enormous power the platform... Read More

Some the most important and beneficial achievements of the Trump administration have occurred at the crossroads of antitrust and intellectual... Read More

Jeff Bezos is backing an ancient kind of nuclear fusion. This tech could be more practical than tokamaks. Read More

On January 26, 1995 heavily recruited Rich East (Illinois) High School quarterback Quincy Woods signed a letter of intent to play for John... Read More