PODCAST: Why This Recession is Different

Cantor Fitzgerald Slammed Over Tariff Trades Which Never Happened In retrospect, if only Cantor Fitzgerald was called PolyCantor, none of this would have happened. Ever since September, the upstart online betting marketplace PolyMarket has been offering traders the opportunity to make money by betting whether the US Supreme Court would rule in favor or against Trump's tariffs, with millions of bets placed for either outcome (of course, we learned the outcome at 10am ET on Friday, when a 6-3 majority - including two Justices selected by Trump - voted against the...

Keynesians claimed that stagflation—rising price levels and increasing rates of unemployment—couldn’t happen. Then it happened time and again, something predicted and coherently explained by Austrian economists.

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s candidacy to return to the position was meant to have been vetoed last month by President Trump, who denounced Maliki as “insane” and threatened to withhold all US support if he returned to office. There was talk of a Sunday ultimatum for him to step down. Monday morning, Maliki […]