Economy & Finance

What Broke Trade Was The Fiat Dollar Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The postwar trading order is taking on an entirely new shape. We can put brackets around the old one, like a tombstone: 1944–2025. Having known some of the economists and statesmen who put together the old order, I’m in a […]

“Sleep Tight, America. We Got This”: NatGas And Coal Power Plants Prevented Grid Collapse During Historic Winter Blast Submitted by Criterion Research President James Bevan,  Winter Storm Fern’s Arctic blast from January 21-26 provided clear data on generation dispatch patterns during extreme cold weather events. The storm stressed multiple U.S. power grids, such as PJM and ERCOT and

Winter Storm Fern To Lower Q1 GDP By 0.5% To 1.5% Winter storm Fern is mostly over, its resulting damage, however, will linger for a long time. To assess the economic impact of the brutal winter storm, BofA chief economist Aditya Bhave looked back at Winter Storm Viola, which hit the US in February 2021.

Why Bitcoin’s Failing Its Role As A ‘Safe Haven’ Versus Gold Authored by Francisco Rodrigues via CoinDesk.com, In theory, bitcoin should thrive during times of uncertainty as it’s sound money that’s censorship-resistant. In practice, it’s becoming the first thing investors sell when push comes to shove. As geopolitical tensions flared over the past week, following

Republican On Health Committee Sells UNH Weeks Before Stock Tanks On Lower Payout Rates Shares of major health insurers – including UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health dropped like a rock on Monday following a Wall Street Journal report that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plan to increase payments to insurance companies by just 0.09% on average next year – falling

Maryland Jury Rules Walmart Liable For Selling Shotgun Used In Employee Suicide Authored by Jonathan Turley, There is a notable torts verdict in Maryland where a jury handed down a multi-million dollar verdict against Walmart for selling a shotgun to an employee who used it to commit suicide. The verdict raises difficult questions over Walmart’s responsibility for

“Did The White House Just Blink?” Border Patrol Boss ‘Demoted’ As Minneapolis Mayor Says Feds Are Leaving On the heels of President Trump’s reconciliatory statement earlier hailing his “very good call” with Governor Tim Walz, and decision to send Tom Homan to the frontlines in Minnesota… “…we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength,”

‘Enough Of Washington’s Orders’ – Venezuela’s Interim President Tells Populace Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez has publicly pushed back against Washington in a rare first since the US military invasion and overthrow of Nicolás Maduro, assering she has had “enough” of US directives. While President Trump initially declared that Washington would effectively “run” Venezuela, he

Trump Threatens To Raise Tariffs On South Korean Goods To 25%; Won Slides Here we go again.  President Trump threatened to hike tariffs on goods from South Korea to 25% from 15%, citing in a Truth Social post what he said was the failure of the country’s legislature to codify the trade deal the two