Trump Disapproval Rate Hits Career-High - War And Rising Costs Take Toll

D.C. Economy "Under Strain," Faces Biggest Spending Cuts Since Great Recession The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its state-level real gross domestic product data on Thursday, revealing a sharply uneven economic landscape in the fourth quarter of 2025, with boom times in North Dakota contrasting with a sharp slowdown spreading across the Mid-Atlantic, especially in Washington, D.C. "From a regional perspective, real GDP increased in 35 states in the fourth quarter of 2025, with the percent change at an annual rate ranging from 3.8 percent in North Dakota to –8.3...

True prosperity cannot be measured by aggregate spending totals prone to manipulation and malinvestment, but by private-sector health, wage gains across income levels, and genuine productive investment.

Politicians say they can “fix” the economy. But economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises pointed out how government “fixes" lead to bigger problems. Ryan McMaken is interviewed by John Stossel for this interview about what we can learn from Mises and Hayek.