(Associated Press) With inflation punishing consumers and threatening the economy, the Federal Reserve this week will likely signal its intent to begin raising interest...
(Associated Press) Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged Tuesday that high inflation has emerged as a serious threat to the Federal Reserve's goal of helping put...
(Alex J. Pollock, Mises Institute) Runaway house price inflation continues to characterize the U.S. market. House prices across the country rose 15.8% on average...
(Alan Reynolds, American Institute for Economic Research) Before they were awash with reserves, banks often paid interest to other banks in the “federal funds”...
(Stefan Gleason, Money Metals News Service) As an overall disappointing year for gold and silver markets winds to a close, metals investors are looking ahead...
(Stefan Gleason, Money Metals News Service) When will precious metals markets finally make their move?
It’s a question that has frustrated many investors in 2021. Gold...
(Ryan McMaken, Mises Institute) It seems supporters of the Biden administration finally settled on a narrative they like for explaining away supply chain shortages.
Here’s the...
(Stefan Gleason, Money Metals News Service) For the first time in most Americans’ lifetimes, they are having to navigate chronic shortages. From bare shelves at...
(The American Prospect) Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock from his personal account on October 1, 2020,...
(Joseph Solis-Mullen, Mises Institute) Though the effective federal funds rate remains less than 0.1 percent, the reaction of the markets and financial press as the ten-year Treasury yield...