By Robert Wenzel On Thursday, Donald Trump delivered an energy policy speech at The Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, Nort...

By Robert Wenzel This is just about as insane and open of an inside look, as to how  US empire operators grab the spoils of their interven...

By Robert Wenzel Long-time readers of EconomicPolicyJournal.com know that I have been a severe critic of the idea that bitcoin will be a l...

By Robert Wenzel I note excitement in a number of Austrian school economics quarters over news that Switzerland will hold a referendum on ...

By Robert Wenzel Former Federal Reserve chairmen Ben Bernanke was in San Francisco last night. In conjunction with the promotion of his ...

By Robert Wenzel I have already posted that I met on Friday evening with Pippa Malmgren. Her father, Harold, worked under four presidents...

By Robert Wenzel There is much excitement, by many. over the decline in the labor participation rate. They see it as some kind of signal t...

By Robert Wenzel The Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis has published a fascinating chart detailing the history of dissents to monetary ...

By Robert Wenzel Two Smiths have dabbled in economics. One some time ago, the other does so now. The earlier dabbler was Adam Smith (172...

By Robert Wenzel In an article at Institutional Investo r , Vineer Bhansali, a managing director and portfolio manager at PIMCO, recently...

By Robert Wenzel As I have written in the past , water is just like any other commodity, if you price it below market clearing levels, yo...

By Robert Wenzel The Federal Reserve Bank of  Cleveland earlier this week tweeted out a notice of a working paper by economists, Michael D...

By Robert Wenzel There really are a lot of dumb people in the world. One of the areas where cluelessness abounds is in the area of econo...

By Robert Wenzel I have never been a big fan of "Audit the Fed." In May 2009, I wrote : I Smell A Trap Ron Paul's  ...

By Robert Wenzel Most members and staff economists of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee, the body that sets monetary policy, appea...

By Robert Wenzel We are all familiar with blowback as the Empire attempts to assert its dominance around the world, that's what mos...

By Robert Wenzel Paul Krugman is flipping out over a recent commentary by hedge fund operator Paul Singer: Sometimes the absurdity of wh...

By Robert Wenzel Paul Krugman recently commented on Martin Wolf's new book, T he Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve Learned—and Have...

By Robert Wenzel On Thursday, Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen delivered a speech at the  International Symposium of the Banque de Fran...

By Robert Wenzel Paul Krugman is out with an essay at Rolling Stone  on President Obama. It is only one note short of being a full hagio...