Federal Reserve Inspector General to investigate officials’ trades for ethics breaches
The Federal Reserve’s inspector general will be conducting an investigation into the stock and bond trades of senior Fed officials to see if ethics laws were broken. According to CNBC,…
Ending the barriers to free markets in labor and talent
The federal government’s unemployment figures show the labor market is still unsettled. With the mismatch between joblessness and job openings continuing, the question of how to close that gap is…
Biden’s commissar of the currency
The Biden administration has gone to great lengths to placate progressives who view the market economy with fear and loathing. But his designee for the office of Comptroller of the…
Supply and demand spur confusion inside the White House
Inflation tends to bring out the worst in government. Whether it’s the Nixon administration’s absurd effort at wage and price controls, or Jerry Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now” buttons, or Jimmy…
Feeding the biggest monopoly of them all
Over the summer, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that says it will marshal the forces of the federal government to spur a renewed burst of competitiveness in the…
Mummifying the economy to save the planet
Climate activists and government officials will gather in Scotland in November to chat about how to fight climate change, and setting aside how many tons of CO2 such a confab…
Big Brother joins the private sector
Stories about government surveillance are disturbing because of the constitutional issues they raise, But what about employers who conduct surveillance on workers? It’s become a big issue with more people…
Postal Service to intentionally make service worse
The U.S. Postal Service got billions of dollars in bailouts in 2020 to help keep it afloat during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. But all that taxpayer money did…
Ethics questions on Federal Reserve Vice Chair’s stock trades
Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Richard Clarida is the latest high ranking official at the U.S. central bank who made trades in personal investment accounts on the eve of key…
The platinum coin gambit is no way to avoid the debt limit
Congress has raised the nation’s debt limit through early December, at which time, we are sure to revisit the recent gamesmanship, and doomsday scenarios. Among those was the resurfacing of…