Steve Hanke points out that the vast majority of retail and speculative positions in the gold market are coming out of China. Steve believes the fundamentals for the metal are very solid and while Eastern buying has kicked off phase one of the current bull market, phase two will be ignited when the West catches on. Steve also discusses the failures of the green energy revolution, the absurd capital gains tax in Canada, Javier Milei's scorecard so far, and much more.

Campuses are overtaken by protest encampments, Jewish students are targeted, and higher ed leaders can’t manage to condemn antisemitism while protecting free speech. But the problems go deeper—like the plagiarism that university faculty would never tolerate in their students. On other fronts, what’s up with all these bans on lab-grown meat? And does the Biden administration understand how money works? Graham Walker, Phillip Magness, and Williamson Evers discuss all this and more on this episode of Independent Outlook.

Economist and author Phil Magness debunks a recent New York Times piece and shoddy academic work about the rich and their taxes. Phil Magness—an economic historian, author, and the David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy at the Independent Institute—says the work of Piketty and his circle of inequality-obsessed colleagues is deeply flawed and sometimes outright deceptive. He points out that billionaires do pay taxes...a lot of taxes. And the inequality literature is riddled with errors and bad statistics. Learn more on Reason.com

Arthur Laffer, Chairman of Laffer Associates and Steve Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics At Johns Hopkins University, discuss the biggest problems the economy faces and how to solve them.

Judy Shelton, Independent Institute senior fellow, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to react to April’s PPI report, her expectations from the Fed, and more.

Independent Institute senior fellow Judy Shelton addresses the Fed's lack of 'intellectual diversity' on 'Making Money.'

Research Fellow Benjamin Ginsberg, author of The New American Anti-Semitism interviewed on The Drive with Trey Radel on WFSX radio (FL). College campuses are a toxic mix of no conservative or moderate faculty, naive and gullible students who can be convinced of just about anything, and the rise of administrators who are foolish and timid. Administrators are afraid to confront the left, Ginsberg says. This was made evident when the heads of Penn, Harvard and MIT testified in front of congress in December of 2023.

Research Fellow Benjamin Ginsberg, author of The New American Anti-Semitism interviewed on Northern Alliance Radio with Brad Carlson on WWTC radio (MN). Naive children at college campuses are being indoctrinated by professional organizers, says Ginsberg, who provides historic examples of indoctrinating children. Students are not taught history or civics. Instead, Ginsberg says, they are taught the United States is a ruthless, repressive and imperialistic power.