Financial Markets

There are some bright spots in the American economy, but look beneath the surface. Stefan Karlsson warns that the downside of bad policy may have been merely postponed. 

Sean Corrigan shows how Rome and her history can give us a reaffirmation of our unshaken belief in the ability of Everyman, acting as a free individual, to repair all the damage ever done by history’s tyrants and their tax gatherers.

The Las Vegas housing market is far from dead. But will it roar ahead after this brief hiccup as Stephen Bottfeld predicts? Is demographics Vegas's destiny? Who knows? But, one may recall that Harry Dent, Jr. used demographic studies to predict that the Dow Jones Industrial Average would reach 40,000 by 2007.

Stefan M.I. Karlsson examines the claims of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis that neither Donald Duck nor Scrooge McDuck can earn more than the average.

Is Australia a dry country? Not at all, writes Benjamin Marks. It has more rainfall than the United States!

Mises was once asked what one institution gives evidence that a society has crossed into socialism from capitalism or vice versa, writes Dale Steinreich.

Just when the supposed threat of disinflation passed, now comes another frightful creation from the fearsome flation family: stagflation. Sean Corrigan explains.

Joseph Salerno writes about a long-term look at this conventional wisdom that shows that 90 percent of deflations since 1820 have not resulted in depression.

Howard Ruff has returned with a new book, Safely Prosperous or Really Rich: Choosing Your Personal Financial Heaven, and another recommendation to buy gold. Hey, it was lucky for him in 1975, maybe it will work for him again to sell three million books.

Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol revealed why they are not drawn to free-market logic: they find it dull. But economics is no more dull than life itself, writes Lew Rockwell.