Kenneth Rapoza

Commentary: Big Tent Ideas Uncle Sam's Reindustrialization Needs A Spark From Transcontinental Railroad Unsplash/Irina Iriser

The U.S. may finally have a coast-to-coast railroad owned by one company. What does it mean for competition and pricing power at a time when American businesses and consumers both could use some deflation, not more inflation?

The future of Web3 agentic AI depends on stablecoin payments, digital wallets and blockchain infrastructure and not Web3 AI models.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has become one of the Democratic Party’s leading voices raising concerns about the pharmaceutical industry’s growing ties to China.

The House Select Committee on the CCP’s recent hearing about China’s economic espionage and corporate influence in the U.S. suggests the Committee is taking China corporate investment here as a potential problem.

Have stablecoins taken the cryptocurrency story away from Bitcoin for good?

Former member of the Federal Reserve Board, Stephen Miran, did not waste much time post-government to come out publicly in favor of tariffs. In a June 28th thread on X, Miran made the market case for tariffs – centered on the “optimal tariff,” failed economic models, and revenue tariffs to curb or cut taxation.

The goods deficit for May is the worst looking deficit on paper, at $106.4 billion, but might not be as bad as that number suggests.

Over $1.3 billion was stolen from cryptocurrency investors in the first half of 2026, and it may be getting worse.

Kenneth Rapoza Many top elected officials, Republicans and Democrats alike, are not big fans of Netflix.