Power & Market

From the Friday, August 21, 2026 print edition.

It took around two hundred years for US government debt to reach one trillion dollars.

By shielding Washington from accountability, the 2008 cover-up institutionalized systemic moral hazard and permanently crippled market discipline.

Cronyism and protecting the scenic views of the wealthy.

"The American Revolution, the European right realized, was a vital milestone in the advance and development of the western revolutionary tradition." 

Betz highlights how rapid demographic shifts and elite-driven mass migration have created an unresolvable three-way tension between native populations, “post-national” ruling elites, and recent arrivals.

Last week we heard that US sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and other ships in the Middle East were being fed food that, from pho

In a recent interview with The Economist, Elon Musk boldly contended that “money won’t matter in 2036.” He doesn’t understand money’s role.

This month marks 55 years since President Richard Nixon closed the “gold window,” severing the last link between the US dollar and gold.

By now, the decolonization narrative should be well known to anyone who pays any attention to leftwing rhetoric.