Mission Impossible: Shaming a Victicrat

“Don’t they have any shame?” thundered Robert De Niro to Congress in “Guilty by Suspicion,” a movie about the Hollywood Blacklist. But toe-tag — don’t-confuse-me-with-the-facts — liberals show absolutely no shame,...

The New Era Nikkei Falls Flat

Last month, the formulators of the Nikkei 225 attempted to update the index in order to reflect the growth of the high-tech sector in the Japanese economy. While editors at the Nihon Keizai newspaper were operating on the belief that the index had become increasingly...

Greenspan, Interest Rates & Inflation

What do low interest rates have to do with causing the government to inflate the money supply?The link between Fed-manipulated interest rates and the money supply is a direct, causal one. The interest rate in question is the ‘Fed Funds rate’. This is the...

Read their lips Hong Kong: “New taxes!”

For the sixth year in a row, Hong Kong has been named the world’s freest economy in the Heritage Foundation’s annual “Index of Economic Freedom.” One of the reasons for this is its low taxes, and what the Hong Kong government boasts on its web...