Michael Wilkerson

Big Tech is Larger, More Profitable, and Spending More Than Ever

Commentary The government-sponsored student loan industry is a system structured to fail its borrowers and enrich university administrations ...

Commentary Prices for retail diesel and gas have each risen by more than one-third ($1.30-plus and $1 per ...

Commentary A wartime economy is no longer a hypothetical future scenario to contemplate. It has already arrived. This ...

Commentary Investors have been rightly impressed by the remarkable run of gold, which in dollar terms has doubled ...

Commentary Nothing illustrates the disconnect between the financial economy’s (Wall Street’s) prosperity and the average household’s (Main Street’s) ...

Commentary Let me get to the punch line of my view on the financial markets for 2026. The ...

Commentary The year 2025 was an extraordinary one for precious metals. Gold, silver, and platinum each outperformed other ...

Commentary November’s job report, released this week from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), sent mixed signals about ...

Our health care system has become a ‘sick care’ system with perverse incentives detrimental to public health and ...

Like termites in a house, inflation slowly but surely gnaws away at Americans’ wealth.

It behooves each of us to ask ourselves the question, how will AI-robotics likely change how I work ...

Commentary The Trump administration (and the president himself) have been pressing hard on the Federal Reserve, and especially ...

The following is an excerpt from the introduction to “Puritans, Pilgrims & Prophets,” Michael Wilkerson’s latest book in ...

Tax Cuts are Revenue Cuts

Commentary Last week was the worst week for the U.S. stock market since the “COVID crash” of March ...

Energy prices are falling, but perhaps for the wrong reasons.

Commentary The Trump administration came into office with an ambitious set of promises in tow. During his campaign, ...

Precious metals prices are on the move.

Commentary During the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution was facilitated by a new form of technology: railroads. By ...

Lab-grown diamonds are cannibalizing the overpriced luxury market

2024 was a challenging year for U.S. retailers. Will 2025 be any better?

How Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, inadvertently planted the seeds of slavery in the future ...

Commentary Walgreens Boots Alliance, the publicly listed “integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail” company that owns the Walgreens retail ...

While tariffs may not be able to replace your income taxes, they may go a long way to ...

U.S. net international investment position hits all-time low.

Commentary In the wake of a rapidly deteriorating domestic economy, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), China’s central ...