BOJ raised to 1.25%, a 31-year high. Two Takaichi appointees dissented. The yen fell. The carry trade lives. Here's what it means for sound money.

Bessent and He Lifeng opened all-day talks in Manhattan on Sept. 20, four days before Trump hosts Xi at the White House for the first time since 2015.

The Fed is a distraction. Congress is the inflation engine. And Bitcoin works as currency right now, Gary Brode spent a month proving it in El Salvador.

Chicago Fed's Goolsbee: supply shocks are structural, 'looking through' no longer works, and restoring 2% will 'necessarily be painful.'

Mike Belshe says the K-shaped economy is a settlement problem, not a policy failure. Tokenization could fix access. Bitcoin fixes the money.

The $70B 5-year Treasury auction priced at 5.033% with the second-biggest tail on record. Bid-to-cover hit a 2018 low. The bond market said no.

Texas manufacturers: production surging, outlook cratering, margins compressing. The Dallas Fed's September survey tells a stagflation story the headline number hides.

UK PIP hits 4.1M claimants. US BLS records 37M disabled. Both break post-February 2021. Ed Dowd lays out what that means for the fiscal picture.

30-year mortgage rates hit 7.28% as of Oct. 1. MBA applications down 6%, fourth straight week of declines. Cash buyers are fine. Everyone else is frozen out.

29K jobs in September vs. 90K expected. July revised to a loss. Bitcoin held $86K as the stagflation trap tightened and Treasury yields slumped.