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This past week, the CEOs of some of the largest U.S. banks attended Davos, and used the opportunity to attack Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong, for having the temerity to attempt to compete with them by ...

Washington is currently gripped by a fervor to lower the cost of credit. From the President's proposal to cap credit card interest rates at 10% to the recent legislation introduced in the Senate ...

The Federal Reserve seems to be quietly shifting its inflation goalposts above its 2% target that has anchored policy since 2012, even as it continues to emphasize its dual mandate of fostering maximu ...

Investor confidence gained by 9.7% in February, while overall optimism improved 3.4%. Consumer sentiment brightened in February as the RealClearMarkets/TIPP Economic Optimism Index, the first mon ...

For months President Trump has been poised to announce his pick of a new chairman for the Federal Reserve Board. He has relentlessly criticized the current chairman, Jerome Powell, for the Fed's ...

Football is a great game, but it would quickly lose its luster if every time the referees stepped onto the field they had a secret meeting to discuss implementing new rules. Likewise, capitalism and e ...

The gap between economic data and its public interpretation is huge and getting bigger. As we approach another election cycle, it's worth asking: what's real, what's political t ...

Money in no way alters reality. This truth seemingly eludes Harvard economist Jason Furman. Consider his assertion in the New York Times that the dollar at "multiyear lows" ultimately &ldq ...

Are you outraged yet? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that four days before President Trump's inauguration, the Abu Dhabi royal family bought a $500 million stake in the Trump family's crypto fir ...

Overlooked amid the Greenland uproar in Davos came an extraordinary statement from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Not only did the leader of America's northern neighbor cozy up to Com ...