Peter St. Onge
Peter St. Onge is a Mises Institute Associated Scholar and an Economic Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. For more content from Dr. St. Onge, subscribe to his newsletter where he writes about Austrian economics and cryptocurrency.
Peter St. Onge Articles
From taxes to spending, Kamala is the most left-wing major party candidate since George McGovern -- who proposed a Universal Basic Income in 1972 and went on to win a single state.
Can we save the dollar before central banking kills it? Our deficits are now stuck at 8% of GDP — unprecedented in peacetime. And our national debt just hit $35 trillion — unprecedented in the history of man.
"Will Debt Sink the American Empire?" So asks the Wall Street Journal, in an uncharacteristically gloomy article for the bull market's paper of record.
In case you've been living under a rock, Gold prices have been on fire, jumping 20% in just the past 2 months. That takes gold to a near-doubling since pre-pandemic, when it was meandering along at just $1500. Yesterday it closed above $...
In case you thought anybody in Washington was driving this thing, they are not. It’s official: the Department of Treasury is now issuing debt at pandemic levels. It’s worth noting the pandemic record was double the previous record, which...
Fresh GDP numbers came in and it was a blowout. The kind of blowout that only a $2.7 trillion government deficit can buy while the private economy crumbles around it.
It's Christmas on Wall Street as the long-awaited pivot is here, with Jerome Powell last week announcing the Fed's giving up on inflation and turning to that long-promised recession.
Sovereign debt is eating the world. Lining up a financial crash that could make 2008 look like a picnic. How did we get here?
It’s the weekend, but our fresh Financial Crisis does not sleep. And a recent study says we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg. The Washington Post wrote: “If banks were suddenly forced to liquidate their bond and loan portfolios, the...
The most important question for asset prices right now, from stocks to houses to Bitcoin, is whether we’re due for a recession. Last week we got confirmation that according to the traditional definition of a recession – 2 quarters of...
