ECONOMY
Militarizing the Capital
Trump’s decision to send the National Guard into Washington, D.C., will be defended as a matter of national security. History teaches us this is not about protecting the people at all. The National Guard was deployed to protect the political class from the people. The United States is now following […]
Has anybody noticed that US M2 is hitting all-time-highs?
From my monthly Bitcoin Capitalist Letter to subscribers, after a lengthy look at bond yields, and how they’ve been going the wrong direction ever since the Fed’s half-point cut last September, I remarked on the following: “The US is flooding the bond market with so much supply to fund deficit spending, that […]
Now Comes the Hard Part
That this extreme inequality is itself the primary threat to both democracy and social stability is poorly understood. Scraped of pleasantries, the ultimate purpose of any status quo is to 1) distribute most of the economy’s gains to the top tier and 2) offload the sacrifices this requires to the bottom […]
Free Market Money: The Antidote
The Donald seems to be continuing his bombing campaign, albeit this time by pivoting back to the home front and taking aim at “Too Late” Jay. As usual, Trump has his facts all wrong about who has had how many rate cuts and that inflation has miraculously disappeared since January […]
120 Million Square Feet: Store Closings In The United States Are On Pace To Set A New Record High In 2025
If everything is going to be just fine, why are thousands of stores closing all over the country? So far this year, the total amount of retail space that has been permanently closed has surpassed 120 million square feet. We have never seen anything like this before. Store closings spiked […]
Doug Casey Responds to the Toughest Questions Facing Libertarians and Anarcho-Capitalists
International Man: Today, we’ll explore some of the most common criticisms of libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism. Imagine two tribes. One is cohesive and tightly knit. The other promotes hyper-individualism. Which is likely to win in a conflict? Doug Casey: There’s nothing wrong with forming cohesive groups. Humans have always been tribal because it’s […]
Doug Casey on Corporate Cowardice, Government Surveillance, and the Creeping Fascism
Matt Smith: Doug, I’ve failed to keep up with the constant firehose of news—or more accurately, disinformation and noise—so I don’t have a long list today. But I know there were a few things that caught your attention. Doug Casey: Well, it’s not that I’ve researched them. They are things that […]
A Real Life Economic Nightmare: How Would You Feel If You Had Applied For 900 Jobs Without Any Success At All?
If you have applied for hundreds of jobs and still find yourself out of work, you are certainly not alone. In many industries, it is absolutely brutal out there right now. U.S. employers have been laying off hundreds of thousands of workers in 2025, and there is immense competition for any good […]
Trump’s Unknown Frontiers
Trump is rewriting the rules of politics, economics, and culture—and no one, not even the experts, knows what happens when the old orthodoxy finally breaks. Donald Trump’s far-ranging counter-revolution, to quote the old Star Trek mission statement, seeks “To boldly go where no one has gone before.” Because no conservative […]
Retail and Tech Jobs At-Risk in the US
US employers have reduced their workforce more in the first seven months of 2025 than in all of 2024. The DOGE cuts to the public sector were the primary driver of layoffs; however, there has been a notable drop in retail and technology positions in the private sector. July alone […]
