David P. Goldman

Academic demographers have shown that family-friendly government policies can mitigate or even reverse the fertility decline that has taken birthrates in

Investors have been betting massively on an AI-driven future over the past two years, as tech stocks have led the S&P 500 to a 60% gain. But they also

Noah Smith asserts in a commentary republished January 27 by Asia Times that “reshoring US industry is possible and happening.” His argument is based on

Gold opened in London on January 31 at an all-time record of US$2,845 an ounce. Gold is an insurance policy against monetary and political disaster. More precisely, it has become a unique insurance policy against systemic risk, breaking away from other assets it used to track – foreign currencies and other metals, for example, as well as inflation-linked Treasuries. That should worry policymakers in Washington. “I will end the war in Ukraine, I will stop the chaos in the Middle East and I will prevent World War III from happening, and you have no idea how close we are,” Trump declared during his election campaign. Trump vowed to end the Ukraine war within a day of taking office, but an end to the war is nowhere in sight. The West won’t accept Russia’s core demand for Ukrainian neutrality. Meanwhile, Russia continues to grind out steady gains.

Donald Trump has a grand design for a new multipolar world: Make peace in Ukraine, stabilize the Taiwan issue, and then cut defense spending in half,

“Betrayed!,” shouts the headline in Der Spiegel, Germany’s top left-wing news outlet. “Trump’s embrace of Putin is a Molotov-Ribbentrop crisis for

Key economic indicators flashed recession warnings as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on February 25 that the US was in a private sector recession and that the Trump administration's goal was to "re-privatize" the economy. "The previous administration's over-reliance on excessive government spending and overbearing regulation left us with an economy that may have exhibited some reasonable metrics but ultimately was brittle underneath,” Trump’s chief economic official said in a speech.

Legend has it that the supply-side revolution – Ronald Reagan’s 1981 cut in the US top income tax rate to 40% from 70%– began in a Washington restaurant,

“Hungary is now one of the poorest countries, and possibly the poorest, in the European Union. Industrial production is falling year-over-year.

Michael Ledeen passed away on May 17 at the age of 83 after a long illness. His death deprives the United States of one of the last Americans who