Frank Holmes

Some of you may remember the crypto winter of 2018. Bitcoin crashed 25% in January of that year, while Ethereum saw three straight months of double-digit losses. Even though we’re entering the...

By now, you’ve heard that the annual inflation rate hit a 41-year high of 8.5% in March. Prices for food, energy, and used vehicles increased the most, with preowned cars and trucks jumping 35%...

Globalization in all its forms, from social to economic to political, has been on the rise since about the 1970s, and I genuinely believe it’s had more benefits than drawbacks. Although it may...

Many of the highest earners in the U.S., including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison, have created millions of new jobs, minted hundreds of thousands of new millionaires and literally improved...

Executives of the biggest U.S. airlines are urging the Biden administration to bring an end to COVID-era travel restrictions. In an open letter, the CEOs of American, Delta, United, Southwest and...

One of the very first recorded examples of a government imposing economic sanctions against another occurred as far back ago as the fifth century BC. In brief, Athens blocked the city-state of Megara...

Brent crude oil came close to $114 per barrel on Wednesday, its highest level since June 2014, as the conflict in Ukraine intensified and sweeping economic sanctions were imposed on Russia, the...

“Ukraine’s glory has not yet died, nor her freedom,” begins the beleaguered Eastern European country’s national anthem. It goes on to promise that Ukraine’s...

History has shown us that the more socialist a country is, the more authoritarian it risks becoming. If you’ve been following the events of the Canadian trucker convoy protests, and the Trudeau...

Every year around this time, we update our always-popular Periodic Table of Commodities Returns. I invite you to compare 2021’s returns to previous years, download a PDF of the table and more by...