By Adam Summers  I am honored to have been invited to join a group of policy experts in the  SoCal Policy Forum , a project of the Sout...

This is a bit technical but over the last couple of days overnight interest rates have been soaring. I mean really soaring. I ran the be...

Federal Reserve conference room As expected, the Federal Reserve has announced that it has cut the key interest rates it controls by 25 ...

President Trump tweeted this morning that he has ordered Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to increase sanctions on Iran, apparently as one step...

Elizabeth Warren By Max Gulker In a Democratic primary field that looks like the cast of a Christopher Guest  ensemble  mockumentary ...

A week ago, based on trading in the Fed Funds futures market,  Fed Funds traders put the odds of a rate cut by the Federal Reserve this ...

By David Stockman. American democracy and capitalist prosperity are dying on the vine of Empire. And this weekend's drone attack on ...

Keynesian economist Nouriel Roubini writes at Project Syndicate : Unlike the 2008 global financial crisis, which was mostly a large n...

Brent crude has surged the most on record as markets opened for the first time since a drone strike on Saudi Arabian oil facilities r...

As I have detailed in the EPJ Daily Alert , there are many reasons for the stock market to be climbing at the present time. One of the sec...

As Israel Kirzner has explained , part of the skill set of an entrepreneur is to know where to find the money to launch an entrepreneurial...

Multiple updates including video below. Saudi Arabia’s oil production was cut by half after a swarm of explosive drones struck at th...

I have already pointed out that Jennifer Burns, associate professor in the Department of History at Stanford University, had a skewed view...

By Ryan Bourne California has approved  a statewide annual rent increase cap  of 5 percent plus inflation for rentable accommodation...

This is a pure disaster. The US budget deficit widened to $1.067 trillion for the first 11 months of the fiscal year, an increase of 19%...

French socialist economist Thomas Piketty, whose 2013 book on inequality, “ Capital in the 21st Century ,” became a global bestseller, has...

Paul Krugman has this right : In addition to demanding that the Fed cut interest rates below zero, Trump declared that “we should then...

Do you want to bet that the Zimbabwe central bank money printers have been working overtime? Zimbabwean baking companies increased the p...

The European Central Bank, earlier today, announced its biggest package of rate cuts and economic stimulus in three years.